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Why did some believe that US expansion was needed to preserve the "American Spirit?" They thought that America would need a strong navy to protect the markets. Also, in Alfred Mahan's book, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, he says that America's future would rely on gaining new markets abroad.
Explanation:
Because it gave them the ability to stand up when riding horseback
<span>They responded by contacting each other and they helped each other out when they needed too.</span>
I don't know too much about the commerce commission but the sherman antitrust act was created due to bad trusts abusing their powers of having national power over a certain product and therefore holding a monopoly and a sort of dictatorship in a certain field. The sherman antitrust act was the first time the government officially intervened with private businesses and laborers. Pretty much the trusts overworked workers and skyrocketed prices and people complained. I'm blanking on the word for when "the government doesn't interfere with private businesses" but the government finally interfered with this act.
Thomas Paine
wrote the pamphlet called common sense