<span>C. Both nations believed their way of life was superior and needed to spread to other nations.
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I don't know what the choices are since your didn't put them in the question, but what did happen is that Portugal continued to go eastward and develop their new trading empire...
To explain the "no west" comment, in 1812 the American "west" only reached as far as the Mississippi River.
The northern states were heavily involved in international trade, having the ports and ship building yards. The men who sailed on those ships were likewise mostly from the north and were the ones being impressed into the British navy. The agrarian south's interests lay entirely in the production of tobacco, cotton, sugar, sorghum and a few other large cash crops. The commerce was mostly within America and they had little interest in shipping issues.
That was the <span>Seventeenth amendment.</span>
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