Why did senator albert j beveridge claim that the us needed to expand trade into new overseas markets?

Why did Senator Albert J. Beveridge claim that the U.S. needed to expand trade into new overseas markets?

to sell America’s surplus of goods

- tobacco.

- "rolfe reacted to consumer demand by importing seed from the west indies and cultivating the plant in the jamestown colony. those tobacco seeds became the seeds of a huge economic empire.the tobacco economy rapidly began to shape the society and development of the colony. growing tobacco takes its toil on the soil."

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b.

jim crow laws were enacted in northern states.