A
more than one of these could be right but A is the best choice because it is about the PLANNING
Imperialism had consequences that affected the colonial nations, Europe, and the world. It also led to increased competition among nations and to conflicts that would disrupt world peace in 1914. ... Meanwhile, Europe's Commercial Revolution created new needs and desires for wealth and raw materials.!!!!!! :)
It is being used as an adjective in the sentence, so the definition is,
<span>"(of an action) convenient and practical, although possibly improper or immoral."
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The meaning of the word "expedient" most likely means practical or convenient
In 1887, Hamlin Garland traveled from Boston to South Dakota to visit his mother and father, whom he had not seen in six years. According to his own account, the trip through farming country was a revelation. Although he had been brought up on a farm, he had never realized how wretched farmers’ lives were. The farther west he traveled, the more oppressive it became for him to see the bleakness of the landscape and the poverty of its people. When he reached his parents’ farm and found his mother living in hopeless misery, Garland’s depression turned to bitterness, and in this mood he wrote Main-Travelled Roads, a series of short stories about farm life in the Midwest.