The correct answer is the U.S. troops - on behalf of the U.S. government. The period between 1820 and 1860 saw the decline of the conditions of the Indians in American territory. Many were decimated, thousands of them were forced to leave their homes in the South and move west of the Mississippi Rivers (this is the so-called Trail of Tears), and many others were even slaved.
The correct answer is <span>increase political and economic influence around the world
The United States government believed that they need to spread their ideas of liberty and democracy worldwide, wherever their ideas were not found and wherever there was tyranny or colonization. By getting others to be democratic republics, they would get support from them and increase their influence.</span>
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1776 - The Declaration of Independence -America gains independence
1789 - George Washington becomes the first president under the new Constitution
