President James Polk made the Gadsden Purchase in 1853 to expand the size of the U.S. during Manifest Destiny.
One immediate cause of the Panic of 1837 was that federal government stopped accepting paper money for the purchase of land.
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If you're talking about the idea of Italian unification from a historical perspective (Seeing as your question is found under the History tab), we can say that having a unified Italy would have made it a stronger country that would perhaps be a more important regional and world player in terms of politics and economy, if it were not for its city-states where each of them had their own agendas and interests.
