USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Both a desire for new markets for its industrial products and a belief in the racial and cultural superiority of Americans motivated the United States’ imperial mission.

Detailed explanation-2: -Overall, the primary motivations and factors that led the U.S. to imperialism were economic, exploratory, political, religious, and ethnocentric.

Detailed explanation-3: -U.S. imperialism took a variety of forms in the early 20th century, ranging from colonies in Puerto Rico and the Philippines to protectorates in Cuba, Panama, and other countries in Latin America, and open door policies such as that in China.

Detailed explanation-4: -RELIGIOUS motives included the desire to spread Christianity, to protect European missionaries in other lands, to spread European values and moral beliefs, to educate peoples of other cultures, and to end the slave trade in Africa.