The answer is "He thought Cortes was a god"
Explanation:
I believe they used the phrase "Manifest Destiny." In other words, they believed that it was their destiny to have the land and to build upon it.
The damage outweighed the benefits to the American people because it meant they got to "have more." In other words, more money.
The government could have made an agreement with the natives and possibly allowed them to continue living on the land, perhaps, that would have caused less wars or battles in the end.
Getting rid of people who opposed, getting rid of the provisional government, and they had to get peasants to start a revolution.
I'm pretty sure it was Thomas "StoneWall" Jackson.
It caused major tensions between the East and the West. I just took the test