To stop the spread of communism.
Explanation:
The United States have an infamous history throughout the 20th century of meddling in the internal affairs in countries all over the world. Some oft hose countries were Guatemala and Iran. There were two reasons as to why the United States engaged into overthrowing their governments, one being the economic factor, and the other being the military factor.
First of all, the United States were trying to stop the spread of communism, and even more so the Soviet influence in other countries. They were opposing the communism mainly because it was endangering the economy, or rather the global trade and market. In order to prevent this, as well as to secure military presence in strategically important places, the United States engaged into overthrowing governments, including the ones in Iran and Guatemala. The overthrowing was done by financing opposing groups, tactical support, providing finances and weaponry...
The federal government was the George Washington in convention
Shakespeare's plays are all about questioning authority: kings are deposed; bad people (Iago) triump over good ones (Cassio); your parents don't always know best (the behaviour of the parents in Romeo and Juliet is the cause of all the trouble).
In the Middle Ages people had a general sense that God was in his heaven, and all was right with the world. In the Renaissance people started to ask if that was true.
Shakespeare is always asking difficult questions, which is a very Renaissance thing to do. And he never makes any direct reference to Christian faith in any of his plays:- religious doubt was also a very Renaissance characteristic.