Americans supported expansionism because they wanted to expand trade to Latin America, many wanted the protection from the U.S, and economic reasons like industrialization.
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In 1854, amid sectional tension over the future of slavery in the Western territories, Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which he believed would serve as a final compromise measure. Without the support of slave-state Senators, the likelihood of completing the railroad remained very low.
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Du Bois was a doctoral student at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, was the first African American to receive a Ph. D. from Harvard University (in 1895), and was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Humboldt-Universität in 1958.
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