People who try to cover the cloven hoof of empire with the petticoats of "Expansion" are as careless of the dictionary as of the constitution. The Philippines do not mean expansion. It does not expand the fire of freedom to pour water on it. ... Expansion is enlargement in kind. If the ex- Spanish colonies applied for admission to this republic and we accepted them, that would be expansion. -Charles F. Lummis, editorial in the Land of Sunshine Which statement best describes this excerpt?​

Review the territory. all land from the bighorn mountains down to south dakota territory. what happened to this territory as a result of the treaty of fort laramie in 1868? it was confiscated by the us government, as a consequence for the battle of the little bighorn. it was given to the us government by the lakota sioux, who got reservation lands in exchange. it was gifted by the us government to the lakota sioux, who viewed it as a sacred place. it was allocated for lakota sioux to settle, but the us government maintained mining rights.