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The answer would be yes. Modern democracy has the Athenians and Pericles to thank for bringing the ideas to fruition.
The answer is Sir Francis Drake. He is an English men but had nothing to do with Spain.
First, they made settlement of the West possible after the Civil War by connecting farmers (and miners, ranchers, loggers, and others) to markets.
Second, railroads helped to integrate different regions of the country economically.