So that railroad companies could build railroads, expanding travel across one's country.
I believe the answer is War Hawks.
<span>the colonial governments had power to pass laws and create taxes. they also decided how the colony's tax money should be spent. they also elected their own assemblies.
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He wanted to colonize Texas and that's what he did. Now he is known as the father of Texas. He also kept slavery legal in Texas. Before he did all of this he was a territorial legislature in Missouri.
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