....a strong, large middle class
Answer:
America's shift to expansion was a result of several different factors including:
1. Economic interests- At this time, America was mass producing goods more than any other time period in American history to this point. With this in mind, many businesses want to expand their markets.
2. Social Darwinism- This is the idea of the "survival of the fittest." The US felt that our institutions and ideas are superior to those of other countries.
3. Manifest Destiny and Industrialization was the idea that Americans were destined to turned the US to a global expansion.
<span>It was a matter of timing. Clay and Webster wanted the Bank of the United States charter to be an election issue. They knew that Jackson would veto the bill to recharter.</span>
He brought them a treaty, The Meiji restoration happened and because of that the Tokugawa Shogunate ended. And modernization of japan started to begin.
