America was aware that it needed to claim their share in all directions in the word when every nation was running faster than the other toward the free regions to have the power on it and dominate it and this is presented in the cartoon in document A. ... Missionaries inspired by books like the Reverend Josiah Strong's Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis, (document B) looked overseas for new fields to till. ... Americans took note of these events, and many thought we should pursue a foreign policy with similar goals. ...

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