Okay, so, just from the top of my head, I think that it is because of the growing belief of "Manifest Destiny" in the nineteenth century. I'm not sure if this is the actual right answer for your question, but I do know that Manifest Destiny was in the nineteenth century and was the widely held belief in the USA that American settlers were destined to expand through out the continent. And I think both the USA and Europe wanted to expand, it was kind of a copetition/conflict they had. This was actually how Canada and Alaska came to be I believe. This was a simple explanation btw. cx
A theocratic government is based of religion. For example the Vatican is a small state of theocratic government lead by the Catholic Church. <span />
Was there a book there a book or a passage that you read cause we can't give a strait up answer if we don't know the the thing to read...
Because they would have to be brought to the United States and it would take up ship space and would have to provide for them and the people didn’t want to give comfort to them and that would change the whole reason that they were slaves with no rights and no care