Answer:
The CCS Shenandoah.
Explanation:
Between 1864 and 1865 , it sailed around the world looking to damage US sea commerce and interests. It sank or captured 38 merchant vessels belonging, mainly whaleships. The Shenandoah was really feared by Yankee merchant vessels. It surrenders six months after the end of the Civil War.
Answer: Portugal
Explanation: In 1494, the two kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula divided the New World between them (in the Treaty of Tordesillas), and in 1500 navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral landed in what is now Brazil and laid claim to it in the name of King Manuel I of Portugal.
The "elastic clause" allowed Congress to make laws it needs to carry out its own powers. An example of how Congress uses it today is how Congress needs to make laws that shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution of the forgoing powers, and all the other powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the department.
I would say no because if we look at economics, it is REALLY expensive to maintain a large country (this case empire) because there would simply be too many people to manage for one governing body (so I would presume a governing body and not a dictatorship). Is an "American Empire" the face of globalization? No.