1. to spread christianity
2. they thought that they could become wealthy
<span>Americans continue to rely heavily on foreign oil. The United States consumes about twenty million of the roughly eighty million barrels of oil consumed daily in the world, and three-fifths of that is imported.
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I need to know the context of the situation. if this is now then its completely different from say the 1870's or late 19th century
