It might have seemed that with their territorial advantage and early start, the Spanish colonies were best posed to take control of the new world. ... The unique transformation the United States underwent, from colony to international power, shaped its foreign policy; starting out as an outsider to affairs dominated by Europe, the United States sought to promote self-benefiting policies like free trade while encouraging the growth of the American ideal and standing in opposition to European colonialism. ... The United States' initial postcolonial years helped mold its early support of f...

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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. ... Read by the English, Germans, and Japanese, as well a by his fellow Americans, Mahan helped stimulate the naval race among the great powers that gained momentum around the turn of the century. ... The acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands, our entry into the Spanish-American War and the resultant debate over the terms of the Treaty of Paris, th...

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There was nothing "free " about the establishment of the American nation (Greenberg 37). ... After the war, filibustering, another tactic of U.S. territorial expansion, was also driven against Spanish Florida, Mexican Texas, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean Islands. ... This empowerment of women's rights helped trigger the first movements in the 1840s. ...

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