To spread their influence around the world
<em>Yes and nothing much would change—the discoveries he made and theories he devised would have materialized anyway sooner or later. </em>
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Before the Civil War, the Free-Soil movement and the Republican Party embraced this idea for the American West: a territory reserved for small white farmers, unchallenged by the wealthy plantation owners who could buy up vast tracts of land and employ slave labor.
