Hello friend,
I presume that Americans developed a "tradition of waste" because of how easy we have made things to do. For example we have made food so easy to get that it makes us lazy therefor making us not care if anything gets wasted.
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He believed the power to buy land did not belong to the federal government, but did it anyway because it would double the size of the country and its resources
Well...I think history is the investigation of past occasions, especially in human issues. Hope this helps!
Hitler wanting to invade other countries is one