International Expansion As An Effect Of The Second Industrial Revolution

After the Civil War, the United States began to experience changes, ultimately as an effect of the Second Industrial Revolution. The United States, as a result of the Civil War, began to thrive and rise up, as well as grow stronger and stronger. As the years passed slowly by, the new idea of overseas expansion brought its way into the lives of many Americans, and it sure did have an effect as it began to spread. During the time periods between, the 19th and 20th centuries, this idea of overseas expansion lead to the creation of new rules and new policies. Not everybody, especially in particular, the Americans, were in full speed for these new rules and policies. These people were not in favor of these new rules and policies, because when it came down
to it, although it may of been the most influential thing to happen to the Americans, it also caused some trouble for the people, as well. Some people spoke up, when times got rough. That is when things were the hardest, like for example, the expanding of American trade. The people voiced their opinions as they should because technically everyone is entitled to their own rights and beliefs.
Back in the day, communication grew stronger and more advanced. People would share the news to bordering states, no matter if it was good or bad news. They thought these new ways of communication would be good for society and for the people. The methods of communication between the people, as well as the states, would share the ideas of what was going on and/or what was about to happen. These types of things were called upbringings. In particular, they believed that the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico would benefit the most from these types of things (upbringings). For example, one of the upbringings that came about, was the idea of imperialism. Imperialism was something that a lot of people agreed with and sided with, while other people were very much against it. People thought that all these new rules and regulations and ideas of imperialism really ruined the basis of the American life for a single person. The Americans of the time, really were against the idea that the United States wanted to work and fight against the opponents, well many other people of this time thought that the United States should worry more about solving the issues throughout the era instead of worrying about what the
people were doing.
First, we should really talk about one of the big issues and main topics talked about from the 19th century to the 20th century. As I said above, that main topic was the idea of imperialism. “What is imperialism?” one may ask, and the answer is to that question is, imperialism is a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. So to the people, that meant that the nation was beginning to increase the amount of power. Imperialism was different for every person. Imperialism was “the policy of an empire”. Imperialism referred to the different races, different forms of government, etc within a nation. (document 6) The main causes of imperialism were economic benefits, military strength, and national superiority. There was a big difference between the old imperialism in the new imperialism, also known as in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In old imperialism, a lot of people specifically the Europeans, fled to the lands that were considered overseas to start a new life for themselves and for a new place to settle. New imperialism on the other hand, was different. The lands were starting to increase, and a lot more people were coming to the area for settlement, but the people were not always so welcoming to the new people coming in. The nations and the people had to fight and compete for land within the nation to live upon. During the New Imperialism, some of the more powerful nations with very few colonies started to take control of the un-colonized nations. They did this ultimately to gain more power than anything else. (document 2) The idea of imperialism was created solely for the purpose of establishing and creating new colonies and nations for the people. By this time, a lot of the parts of the world had experienced and been through what is called colonization. This was one of the main views of the United States overseas expansion from the 1900s to the 2000s.
Another one of the issues through the United States overseas expansion through the centuries was the American attitudes. The Americans attitudes were not all of the best, but very few had good attitudes and because of that they experienced good outcomes throughout the era. The American people did not want the United States to gain too much power, because based on America's past, they did not seem to have a very good end result. Most of America functioned as a colony because the Americans could always move the people around from one place to another. America had really high standards. They were known for many things as well. America was known to be a leading exporter for both agricultural goods and manufacture products. They were so well known that they had to fight and compete throughout many oversea markets just to get the raw materials that they needed from overseas. A lot of the American people, including business leaders and farm groups how to start working together to ultimately keep more markets and such open overseas for a longer period of time. But many of the people who were expected to help expand the markets, as well as increase power, etc. were not actually the people who did it. The people who were more involved happen to be those that have the most power in the era like military leaders for example. A lot of the people believed in the idea of self-government, which seemed realistic at the time, but was it really? No. A lot of the people were just down right not right and/or just straight unfit for their idea of self-government. The people like the Philippines for example, Blue they could overtake the government and then no fear of it. (document 5) So ultimately some of the Americans attitudes were made pretty clear like those who fought against the idea of more power versus those who didn't, for example. Some of the people are very positive attitude while others are very negative attitudes, and this had an effect on society and other people around them.
The last and final view of the United States overseas expansion from the 19th to 20th centuries was the Spanish-American War. The American people sided more towards the Cubans then with Spain within during the war. There was a big difference between the Cubans and the Spanish people. The Cubans were very poor people who did have much, while the Spanish controlled everything and had everything. This upsetted many people from the poor to the rich, and the Spanish just wanted to do what was right. The War with Spain was ultimately suppose to help the other people and the government. And this War with Spain started to include the Blacks which was gonna end up making things more peaceful and an “era of good feelings”. All Spain wanted was a perfect sound of unity among the people around them without the issues of racism, etc. (document 1) As a step to fix this, the American government try to adopt a policy of neutrality to help with this issue. The Americans reached out for help, but got little in return. McKinley just wanted to help the Philippines. They were unfit for self-government as I said above, and soon as time went on, they would have an “anarchy” and would soon be misruled for so many things. According to Document 3, McKinley just wanted the Philippines to be involved in the church and one night after speaking to God, he figured it all out. He decided that all he could do was to educate them and to provide them with everything he possibly could. (document 3) A lot of the Americans were starting to believe that all the people were ready to start accepting peace and neutrality, that was still yet to come in the years to follow. (document 4) The Spanish-American War had a big effect on a lot of things throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
All these views came about, because a lot of the Americans were greedy and took advantage of the power that they had, and did everything in their power to protect their rights. America viewed the United States as a nation, a big nation in fact, and one that needed to focus more on controlling those that were below the high ranking and established lower class nations. And you can see that in the picture drawn in document 7. The opponents disagreed with all this. They on the other hand believed that the Americans and America got involved in too much, and put themselves in a pickle. The opponents think that America should not of gotten involved in certain things. The views of national identity did not really have a positive outcome, but more of a negative one as you can see throughout this whole essay. Ultimately we must leave that up to the views of national identity to distinguish what was a good outcome versus a bad one.