It was the Enlightenment principles of "A. John Locke" that Thomas Jefferson build upon when he drafted the Declaration of Independence. He had read these works at a very young age.
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The United States wanted to focus on its own economic troubles
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I'll give you three:
China gave Japan -
Buddhism
Confucianism (the political and ethical thought)
The idea of a centralized imperial state
History is hard (I'm assuming you're in World History or WHAP) and I hope you get through it okay!
The philosophy of Karl Marx was not used to justify European Imperialism whereas European superiority allowed other races to be seen as sub-human, as did social Darwinism as there were theories produced to suggest the white race was genetically superior (where the term Caucasian came from).
Answer:
The desire for access to natural and mineral resources and the hope of many settlers for economic opportunities or religious refuge led to an increased migration to and settlement in the West
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