The frontier was opening to those brave enough to explore it and whether to settle there or not. Most decided on settling there a have a new beginning despite the hardships. It was a time when canals were beginning to make inroads into the interior. Those who helped build them chose to stay. Soon the railroads began to further open the forests west of the Alleghenies. The population began moving west as immigrants from Ireland and Germany fled the confines of the eastern cities and their increasing populations.
The Americanization movement was a nationwide organized effort in the 1910s to bring millions of recent inmigrants into the American cultural system
Answer: c. slaughter and enslavement.
The Pequot War is the name of an armed conflict that occurred between the English colonists and the Pequot tribe in New England, between 1636-1638. Nearly 700 Pequot people died or were taken into captivity. Hundreds were sold as slaves to the West Indies.
The war meant the almost complete destruction of the Pequot culture, with colonists considering them extinct and survivors being absorbed into other local tribes.
Puerto Rico: for political, economic, and security, strength to the US
Cuba: wanted to free Cuba so they could have a better trading policy
The Philippines: to provide the US with raw materials and new markets
China: wanted to increase the sphere of trade and influence the use of their ports, new markets.
