O'Sullivan argued that American expansion and imperialism was justified because <span>A) gaining new territory would allow democracy to spread throughout the continent.
He says in the quote that "</span><span>Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us," so you can see they wanted to spread their ideologies throughout the country. </span>
<span>it is Romulus Moore an American politician and leader
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Despite the North's greater population, however, the South had an army almost equal in size during the first year of the war. The North had an enormous industrial advantage as well. At the beginning of the war, the Confederacy had only one-ninth the industrial capacity of the Union. But that statistic was misleading