There can be many benefits and down sides to this, in return for helping these countries you gain an ally. Although you have to spend your own money. All in all it is worth it in the end because you have another country you can trust.
No he didn’t think that they were equals. When he was president he passed a lot of legislation that hurt natives including the removal act which led to the trail of tears. He believed that white people had a god given right to the Indians land
Back then, status was a factor in your life that would matter greatly. The ranking of a citizen would mean where they were in life, and where exactly they would stay. Well, patricians were the rich society.They were all highly respected for their riches and overwhelming amounts of power. Then you had plebeians, who were the generic people.The basic families. Farmers, merchants, street sweepers, that kind of thing. They had no say in government, unlike the patricians.