What action was based on the desire to get rich resources into open new ports that would make it easier to trade with asia?
a. the sending of american troops to to take western canada
b. attempts to gain land based on the idea of manifest destiny
c. the decision of the southern states to secede
d. the writing of the monroe doctrine

he government should regulate the economy

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire

c. extended rights of citizenship to new groups