After the united states bought the Philippians archipelago from the Spanish in a sum of 20 million dollars, the US occupation of the Philippines has been significant for molding the nation towards its independence. One of its major proponents is American leaders like Roosevelt and Twain who granted the Philippine Islands sovereignty.
The dutch accepted china's restrictions on trade; the british didn't. british refused to preform the "kowtow" ritual
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Thomas Jefferson took a more "literal" approach in reading and understanding the Constitution, since he was an ardent Anti-Federalist who wanted most of the power to remain in the individual states.