From mid 1800s through the early 1900s, powerful nations engaged in a dash to extend their influence across the world. This time in history was known as the Age of Imperialism and one of these powerful nations was the United States. The nation began to acquire influence and territories outside its continental borders, abandoning isolationism and emerging as a new power on the global stage. In the Washington D.C. newspaper the quote, “The taste of empire is in the mouth of the people even as the taste of blood in the jungle,” means that similar to the animals in the jungle when they taste blood, once the people know how it is to rule others they would want to expand their power across the
