USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

[SOURCES]
Expansionism means ____

(A) to stay within your borders

(B) ** to go beyond your borders

(C) to work outside of your sphere of influence while in China

(D) to open up your mind

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -: the belief that a country should grow larger : a policy of increasing a country’s size by expanding its territory.

Concept note-2: -Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined-by God, its advocates believed-to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.

Concept note-3: -Answer and Explanation: Expansionism refers to spreading one’s country onto other lands, which may or may not be occupied. Imperialism refers to controlling other countries, which the empire may or may not directly settle. The American establishment of a continental empire was a mix of both.