The newly "United States" now had a mission this mission was Manifest Destiny, to eventually cover an area soon to span from one great ocean to another and Americans believed it was their God given right. ... Theodore Roosevelt shows this very sense of control in his Annual Message to Congress, "If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States." ... Mahan states, "The position of the United States, between the two Old Worlds and the...

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Although much of the paper is about the happenings across the oceans, there is still room for some news about home. ... How advertisers go about getting that message across is slightly different toady from back then. ...

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Wilson was the first president to deliver his State of the Union messages to Congress in person, since John Adams was president from 1797 to 1801. ... After this, a German foreign minister sent Mexico a telegram telling them to attack America to get America distracted from more German submarines being put out into the ocean. ...

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On the night of 15 February l898 the battleship USS Maine was shattered by an explosion, which sent the ship and two-thirds of her crew to the bottom of the ocean. ... (Theodore Roosevelt's Message to Congress, 6 December, 1904.) ...

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