The excerpt reflects the viewpoint of Federalists.
The above appreciations can be found in Alexander Hamilton text "The utility of the union as a safeguard against domestic faction and insurrection." In it, the idea of the Confederate Republic defined by Hamilton as an <em>assemblage of societies</em> is characterized. It defines the extension up to which democracy should operate.
Thus, the ideas in the excerpt are also, some of the ones that constitute what Hamilton referred to as the <em>science of politics and representation</em>, which contained elements that categorized an innovative government as the US is.
If these are the options:
<span>- They followed the Mississippi from its source to its mouth.
- They claimed large stretches of land in the southern U.S.
- They claimed the St. Lawrence River.
- Spain gained great wealth.
The answer would be SPAIN GAINED GREAT WEALTH.
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