Answer: The act blocked Chinese immigrants from becoming American citizens.
Answer:
extend
Explanation:
Polk's goal was to spread the United States across the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean. His goal was to secure the territories of <u>New Mexico </u>and <u>California</u>, which allowed him to extend the United States to the Pacific Ocean.
<span>-French North American mainland territory had been unproductive and costly to maintain in past wars, something that Napoleon knew he could not afford in the upcoming wars.
</span><span> -Britain had already declared war on France, surely part of the reason was to try and encourage better Franco-American relations. Surely Napoleon had some idea of American pride and stubbornness as well, once the U.S. controlled the territory </span>
<span>-</span><span>Napoleon knew that there was no way any European power (Britain specifically) would conquer the territory. </span>
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Napoleon needed money and the sale of the Louisiana territory brought France some much needed capital. </span>
A country would want to get a larger military to overpower or to stand ground against other counties. "Problems" that this could cause to a nation is to be over militarized and not care about its citizens, problems to surrounding nations is that they would feel threatened by a larger military.
