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What factors caused America to turn its attention to the world beyond her borders? In the final decades of the nineteenth century, America grew hungry for empire and expansion, and became incredibly aggressive in its foreign policy
Aggressive expansionism became popular in America thanks to the desire to tap overseas markets, the yellow press of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the racist view that Anglo-Saxons ought to dominate the "backwards peoples" (a view made popular by Reverend Josiah Strong's Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis), the development of a new steel navy (which prompted Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan's 1890 book The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783), and the rise of imperialism among the European powers seeking to expand into Africa in the 1880s and the Chinese Empire in the 1890s
Why did President Cleveland not want to annex Hawaii? Grover Cleveland, an anti-imperialist, opposed annexation as an infringement upon a soverign nation and tried to restore the Queen (Liliuokalani).
What was happening in Cuba that caused America to be concerned? hanks to oppressive Spanish rulers and a crippled economy (caused by the American tariff of 1894's barriers against Cuban sugar production), Cuban rebels (known as the insurrectos) launched an effort to fight for independence in 1895, adopting the scorched-earth policy against cane fields, sugar mills, and passenger trains
Americas business interests in Cuba (which included a $50 million investment stake and an annual trade stake of $100 million), atrocities committed by Spanish authorities (including infection-ridden reconcentration camps), and Yellow Journalism served to galvanize anti-Spanish sentiment in America
Why did commodore Dewey have such an easy victory over the Spanish fleet at the Philippines? n May 1, 1898, Dewey's squadron, consisting of six brand new warships, sailed into Manila harbor. The 10-ship Spanish fleet was completely taken by
Aggressive expansionism became popular in America thanks to the desire to tap overseas markets, the yellow press of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the racist view that Anglo-Saxons ought to dominate the "backwards peoples" (a view made popular by Reverend Josiah Strong's Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis), the development of a new steel navy (which prompted Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan's 1890 book The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783), and the rise of imperialism among the European powers seeking to expand into Africa in the 1880s and the Chinese Empire in the 1890s
Why did President Cleveland not want to annex Hawaii? Grover Cleveland, an anti-imperialist, opposed annexation as an infringement upon a soverign nation and tried to restore the Queen (Liliuokalani).
What was happening in Cuba that caused America to be concerned? hanks to oppressive Spanish rulers and a crippled economy (caused by the American tariff of 1894's barriers against Cuban sugar production), Cuban rebels (known as the insurrectos) launched an effort to fight for independence in 1895, adopting the scorched-earth policy against cane fields, sugar mills, and passenger trains
Americas business interests in Cuba (which included a $50 million investment stake and an annual trade stake of $100 million), atrocities committed by Spanish authorities (including infection-ridden reconcentration camps), and Yellow Journalism served to galvanize anti-Spanish sentiment in America
Why did commodore Dewey have such an easy victory over the Spanish fleet at the Philippines? n May 1, 1898, Dewey's squadron, consisting of six brand new warships, sailed into Manila harbor. The 10-ship Spanish fleet was completely taken by