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…showed last 75 words of 540 total…process, and due to accidents, malnutrition, and disease, many immigrants died. There were both positive and negative aspects to United States territorial expansion. Supporters said that it would bring economic stability and provide access to ports along the Pacific Ocean. Americans who were opposed argued that expansion was unconstitutional and that it would break Indian treaties. Overall, the issue was one more problem added to the bundle with which the United States had to cope.