It gave them more power because before they didn't have much power.
Technically this is true in the United States, since before westward expansion there were land restrictions on which white men could vote--but since practically all white men in the west owned land this was not the case.
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I believe its B. The Civil War increased prices and shortages of imported goods.
Explanation:
He believed he had sailed all the way around the world and didn't know that North America existed. However, he didn't really think he had reached Asia. He thought he had reached the East Indies, an island chain containing Indonesia.
The correct answer is “avoiding European affairs”
Even when Europe was moving closer and closer to war in the 1930s, the US Congress passed the Neutrality Acts that demanded a growth in isolationism and non-interventionism. The isolationists defended that the WWI was a failure and the safety of the US was more important than any war in Europe.