Both sides believed the war would be short lived, so little attention was paid to prisons.
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[✓]Sir Francis Drake claimed the coast
[✓]Lewis and Clark explored and mapped the interior
[✓]John Jacob Astor made one of the first settlements
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Japan's aggressive imperialism was justified. I think this because other nations would have used imperialism to control them if they didn't go after those countries before they could control over them. An example of this would be Matthew Perry, a US commodore, who sent 4 ships to Tokyo's port with a letter from Woodrow Wilson to get the Japanese to open trade. Japan replied to the letter by sending a fleet of ships to America.
The Monroe Doctrine<span> was </span>important<span> because it stated that the newly independent United States would not tolerate European powers interfering with the nations in the Western Hemisphere, and if the European powers did interfere, then the United States would retaliate with war.
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