abolitionist applied the enlightenment idea of equal rights to demand an end to slavery (APEX)
The Whaling Industry allowed for Americans to dissolve isolation of Asian countries. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo added ports along the Pacific that wereused for U.S. influence and explorations. Opium was also a major driving factor ofinterest through trade, in addition to the idea of expansion with the Kanagawa Treaty,which opened ports to American commerce. The United States wanted to extend theirborders to keep close contact for American success.
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Sugar Act, also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act, (1764), in U.S. colonial history, British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian
