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.
Sectionalism is the belief that a person's region was superior to other sections of the country. ... All of these issues led to sectionalism in the United States and pushed the country to the brink of war.
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A country would want to get a larger military to overpower or to stand ground against other counties. "Problems" that this could cause to a nation is to be over militarized and not care about its citizens, problems to surrounding nations is that they would feel threatened by a larger military.