Explain how each of these was important to u. s. pacific expansion?

Pacific Rivals: The United States' Pacific Expansion to 1898. Earliest Times Few nations' history is as glorious, and glorified, as the United States'. Britain ranks among those, but the U.S., in both perception and reality, has outdone its parent nation.

religion played a major role in the american revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the british--an assurance to the average american that revolution was justified in the sight of god. the revolution strengthened millennialist strains in american.