Similarities Between Imperialism And Expansionism

Register to read the introduction… When Americans started to expand its territory, they didn't look after Native Americans and ignored them. A decade later, with the "criminal aggression" in the Philippines, racism was reflected in new expansion. The American Anti-Imperialist League asserted that the blood of the Filipinos was on American hands, and Americans resented the betrayal (Doc D). Josiah Strong, a prominent Congregationalist minister from Ohio, thought that America needed to claim as many of the unoccupied lands of the world, as it could, in order to further the Anglo-Saxon race (Doc B). At this time, president Roosevelt employed the foreign policy using his new naval Power. This was extremely aggressive. He was inspired from Alfred T. Mahan's The Interest of America in Sea Power that claims the United States needed to exand for military and economic reasons (Doc C). …show more content…
The departure of imperialism from expansionism is more obvious than its continuation. First of all, for expansionism, there was not as much problem as imperialism becuase it was expanding domestically. Meanwhile, it was more complicated for later because those countries America wanted to conquer were foreign territories and it led rebellions. Before America started looking outside of the nation, countries like Germany, Britain, Japan and Russia had already controlled most of the world (Doc A). Inspired by them, America felt a necessity to be a part of the