Answer:
I believe it is either
A-) to show the nations of the world that they had a protector, or
B-) to show the nations of the world that it was better to be a friend of the U.S. and not an enemy
Explanation:
The fleet intended to demonstrate American naval power was impressive, but technically outdated. When the HMS Dreadnought was launched on February 10, 1906, the prototype for the next generation of battleships, the large combat ship, was already in use, and the first US dreadnought ship, the USS South Carolina, was just being equipped. The two oldest ships in the fleet, the USS Kearsarge and the USS Kentucky, were out of date and no longer fit for combat, and two other battleships, the USS Maine and the USS Alabama, had to be replaced in San Francisco due to technical difficulties.
... frustrations with how independence had led to situations where caudillos (authoritarian leaders) rose to power.
Bolivar had wanted a united Spanish America, a great nations, but the wars of independence had tended to result in charismatic military rulers leading their own countries in authoritarian ways -- what we today would call dictators.
A response to the point: There was no enforcement of the legislation.
Here's a more detailed response, "Many blacks did not believe that civil rights legislation went far enough in the North because desegregation was not enforced. Schools in the North were considerably more segregated than those in the South. The Supreme Court abandoned the idea of achieving integration because it would have required some students to move great distances. The Court also overturned white suburbs to integrate into heavily minority schools."
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