They overturned traditional governments and established democracies, They were economic giants and together controlled world trade, They sought to solve their nations' problems through conquest.
What Whitman is trying to say that Americans have liberty
and a choice. He states that we have the chance to make our life the way that
we want it to be. We are united and one through our task for freedom and independence,
and America gives us a chance to communicate to each other.
I guess u have to research about the towns area, how land are being used in that particular area, how the conditions of lands can be further improved, effects on life of people living there because of land development both positive and negative and so on