AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
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satisfying the complaints of anti-imperialists
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providing strategic naval bases and new opportunities for trade
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leading the U.S. into permanent alliances with European countries
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -And the annexations continued: Alaska (1867), the 1898–99 acquisitions (Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, American Samoa), the Panama Canal Zone (1903), the Virgin Islands (1917), and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1947).
Detailed explanation-2: -The renewed push to expand territorial control included not only the earlier colonial powers of western Europe but also newcomers such as Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -There were new crops; tools and farming methods, which helped, increase food production. These changes meant less death to smaller colonies, and overall improve the state of living. They now could live longer and have better sanitation compared to the earlier imperialism.