American Anti-Imperialist League

War, the majority of the country had their sights set on racial domination of minority groups or just African Americans to bluntly say, no foreign engagements military or political were taking place against the United States (excluding Native Americans). However, circa 1898 Cuba was under Spanish oppression. As stated by James D. Richardson, Messages, and papers of the presidents, American trade, and commerce with Cuba had taken a gargantuan blow from the deeds of the Spanish military by…

imperialistic, was tied and restricted by several treaties and by the established international law. The Asian country started to claim new territories, but under the Powers’ dictations, these movements were clearly limited, revealing a Western imperialist mood that impacted on Japan to set in motion for a dramatic change in their thoughts of growth. “The Manchurian Incident”, happening in September 1931 and through which Japan set up Manchuria as a puppet state, revealed how the contained…

In the late nineteenth-century, American expansionism took on a different hue, but in many ways remained similar to the expansion of the preceding century. As the progressive era dawned and the frontier was declared to be closed, expansion efforts took on a more paternalistic and trade oriented attitude, rather than one of pure imperialism, but many Americans perceived the new expansionist ideology as a continuation of the old. The civilized nations of Europe were taking large swaths of land in…

Imperialism is the economic, and military influence into foreign territories to expand and protect American trade. The United States was trying to create an empire by emerging an imperialistic power in Cuba and the Philippines. The United States, actions was inspired by affairs of unselfish concerns and was justified as extreme devotion to a belief and supported by racist ideals. There’s more of an importance force behind nationalism and commercialism but humanitarianism and racism have an equal…

As more Americans moved West through the Homestead Act, less farmable land was available. Although this didn’t stop people from expanding west, people also began to expand to other territories in the Pacific and Caribbean. To expand, Americans thought mainly about themselves took control over of natives who already lived there. The goals of imperialism were fueled by self-interest economy, religion, politics and exploration. To begin with, the idea of Manifest Destiny inspired Americans to move…

What do people think of when someone tells them of the Philippine War? Most will respond with “the Philippines and Americans fighting with each other” not exactly there’s way more than that to even begin with. Before the Philippine American War started we were at war with Spain for no more than four months. Firstly, Spain didn’t want war with any country whatsoever, Later Spain promised Washington to end all concentration camps and make peace with them. But the United States didn’t buy…

wanted to continue the growth of America’s influence and the world and wanted it to be a significant power. In Turner’s paper, A Significance of the Frontier in American History, he explained that Americans had to adapt themselves to the changes of an expanding people. He also mentioned that “this perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this…

teenager, Chavez was heavily influenced by a local historian named, Jose Esteban Ruiz Guevara. Guevara introduced him to Karl Marx, the German philosopher who was one of the fathers of communism. He also introduced him to Simon Bolivar, the South American independence hero. He was interested in baseball. His childhood dream was to become a pitcher for the San Francisco…

The Age of American Imperialism During the 1890s the United States saw potential in the distant lands of the Western Hemisphere they saw an enormous possibility for trade and new markets. The United States foreign policy during the 1890s focused their ideas by expanding toward the Western Hemisphere and their goal was to remove Great Britain as the dominant power, and in turn become the leading power. The US also saw that European countries were expanding and having colonies in Asia and Africa,…

Kaylen Simmons Dr. Piper Huguley-Riggins 215 English: 20th Century Black Women Writers 7 July 2016 Pauline Hopkins’ Legacy African American 20th Century writers have played a big role in educating the community. The authors and poets of the Harlem Renaissance who prospered in the 1920s, such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, have become more popular and their works have been recognized and interpreted in English classes in recent years. Pauline Hopkins should be included the next time…