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How do individuals and institutions galn,
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<em>For an empire to grow, one state has to take control of other states or groups of people. The Maurya Empire in India used a combination of political sabotage, religious conversion, and military conquest to expand its rule. The Romans, although a militaristic society, did not generally set out to conquer territory.</em>
Answer:
imposing high tariffs
Explanation:
The federal government actively promote industrial and agricultural development in this period by imposing high tariffs which prevented competition, granted land to Railroad companies, removed Indians for farmers and mining companies. This all happened during the Gilded Age, which was from 1870s to about 1900.
To mobilize the growing mass of voters in the means of political control.