U.S. military expansion was enormous during this period, and commerce grew intensively.

There Tecumseh met Dragging Canoe, a famous leader who was leading a resistance movement against U.S. expansion.

An aging population and a contracting workforce may curb U.S. economic expansion for several decades, for example.

In July 2008, the company announced it was closing 600 underperforming company-owned stores and cutting U.S. expansion plans amid growing economic uncertainty.

"By that time Asia should have begun to form a base, and the continuing U.S. expansion will result in rising wage pressures."

He is believed to have influenced Congress into declaring war simply with the hope of U.S. expansion.

The tightening in mortgage credit has placed further downward pressure on home sales and home prices, a situation that now could derail the U.S. economic expansion.

They opposed imperialism and U.S. overseas expansion, fought for the gold standard, and opposed bimetallism.

The success of the CFL's U.S. expansion was mixed.

In response to these difficulties, McDonald's drastically cut back on its U.S. expansion.