The main reasons that imperial nations built large naval forces was to protect their economic interests in these colonies as well as their political interests. In addition they also sought to demonstrate their size and prowess in their ability to exert military force around the globe.
Answer: Germans: More than 1.5 million between 1820 and 1860. The 1850s was the single biggest decade for German immigration, with some 951,000 reaching the United States. Why They Came Irish: Most emigrated to escape grinding poverty in Ireland—or to avoid outright starvation in the years of the potato famine.
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i think its -4.8 im not so entierly sure tho
The word “imperialism” is widely used as an emotive—and more rarely
as a theoretical—term to denote specific forms of aggressive behavior on
the part of certain states against others; the concept refers primarily
to attempts to establish or retain formal sovereignty over subordinate
political societies, but it is also often equated with the exercise of any form of political control or influence by one political community over another.
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