To travel from coast to coast it would take 10 days.
<span>President Thomas Jefferson sent secretary Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe to France to negotiate the purchase of Louisiana with Napoleon Bonaparte </span><span>
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By contrast, populist authoritarian regimes "are mobilizational regimes in which a strong, charismatic, manipulative leader rules through a coalition involving key lower-class groups". Examples include Argentina under Perón, Egypt under Nasser and Venezuela under Chávez and Maduro
“Schenck believed that war helps the rich while sacrificing the poor men who are forced to fight, and he contended that the draft violated the U.S. Constitution.”
They would support a policy of imperialism. The late 19th century brought a larger number of people in America to the side of imperialistic action similarly to European countries throughout the 19th century. In 1898, the US engaged in the Spanish-American War and gained their first territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in addition to Cuba as a protectorate. In the same year, the US also annexed the Hawaiian islands.
