From the Civil war until the 1890s almost all of Americans had a very little interest in the idea of territorial expansion. Americans resisted expansion all for two reasons, one of them was that imperial rule seemed inconsistent with Americans Republican principles. The other reason was that the united states people were interested in acquiring different people with different cultures and different languages and religions. Doc: A American expansion was very well justified.There are numerous ways to explain this. By the mid 1890's a shift had taken place in American attitudes toward expansion and that was sparked partly by the european scramble for empire. Tradesmen and store owners
From the Civil war until the 1890s almost all of Americans had a very little interest in the idea of territorial expansion. Americans resisted expansion all for two reasons, one of them was that imperial rule seemed inconsistent with Americans Republican principles. The other reason was that the united states people were interested in acquiring different people with different cultures and different languages and religions. Doc: A American expansion was very well justified.There are numerous ways to explain this. By the mid 1890's a shift had taken place in American attitudes toward expansion and that was sparked partly by the european scramble for empire. Tradesmen and store owners