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A 5 page overview of the change that occurred in regard to American imperialism at the end of the nineteenth century. Starting with the Spanish American and emphasized by our relentlessness in quelling the Philippine Insurrection, the U.S. began to travel on the road toward being a world superpower. This road moved us away from our isolationists tendencies and into our current status as one of the major players in world events. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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File: AM2_PPusExpn.rtf
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the topic in terms of European or Asian imperialism and in more of a negative light than a positive one. Imperialism has, of course, shaped the world as we
know it. This shaping is not solely attributed to entities other than the U.S., however. In fact, the U.S. itself has a long history of expansionism. The
American expansionism that occurred in the latter 1800s is particularly interesting in this regard. The United States was in reality still a fledgling country during the Nineteenth Century.
Although its populace shared in the common desire for freedom and a democratic government, they in reality had little in common with one another. A significant percentage of the
country was first generation immigrants from Europe and the rest of the population had only been true "Americans" since the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence in 1776, just
a few short years earlier. Just a few years later, in 1812, we were once again fighting against the British in protection of our sovereignty. Consequently there was
considerable fractionation between the people. The young United States also faced the problem of enlarging her territories into the surrounding geographic area. As a consequence they sometimes still
ran afoul of foreign entities and almost constantly had to deal with the aboriginal peoples who had the odd perception that the lands upon which their peoples had lived for
centuries was theirs. The U.S. consequently engaged in an enlargement policy which in many ways mimicked that that was being carried on in other regions of the world at
the hands of other world powers. Originally the U.S. preferred isolation from the rest of the world, a preference that would be formalized
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