In the 1840s the main argument and Congress over the transcontinental railroad concerned the impact it would have on individual towns, since the railroad caused a major disturbance in many of the towns it passed through.
The foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration was the foreign policy of the United States from 1981 to 1989. The main goal was winning the Cold War and the rollback of Communism—which was achieved in Eastern Europe in 1989 and in the end of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Benjamin Franklin was an american ambassador to France and also he was the one to convince France to help out.
Because there were no resources that could prove useful to him So he left them unharmed. Also if he tried to take over Sweden he would have had a hard time due to Sweden being surrounded by mountains.