AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
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Only wealthy Americans could enjoy the opportunities that arose from empire building.
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The United States was unable to compete with other great nations in building an empire.
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Imperialism violated the United States’ founding principles of freedom and democracy.
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The United States should not waste its money building a far-flung empire.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was the Anti-Imperialist League’s basic criticism of empire building? Imperialism violated this nation’s founding principles of freedom and democracy. A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Anti-Imperialist League was formed in June 1898 [?] to oppose the war of the United States with Spain over Cuba’s fight for independence from Spanish rule. The United States also wished to expand its influence in the Carribean and across the Pacfic and so annexed the Philippine Islands and Puerto Rico.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Anti-Imperialist League opposed annexation on economic, legal, and moral grounds. The original organization was founded in New England and was absorbed by a new national Anti-Imperialist League.
Detailed explanation-4: -The anti-imperial movements that developed everywhere were nationalist, in the sense that they all struggled to form independent nation-states, and were inspired by a sense of collective national unity, forged in confrontation with imperialism.