This Conference on the conservation of natural resources is in effect a meeting of the representatives of all the people of the United States called to consider the weightiest problem now before the Nation; and the occasion for the meeting lies in the fact that the natural resources of our country are in danger of exhaustion if we permit the old wasteful methods of exploiting them longer to continue.
The number of senator from the state+ the amount of other electors according to the state's population that is all I know
This meant that britons thought that they were the finest and it was their job to get more territory. They wanted more territory to get more of the “finest race”.
Explanation:
Britain attacking the Western United States