American Imperialesm
-Mark Sowders
Description:
America become what could be called a empire. The US got involved with other states problems in order to support it's own interests. This was mostly for economic reasons, but sometimes was for military reasons such as trying to gain over seas ports to support a powerful Navy.
Details:
-The US needed new markets to sell it's goods to. So they started to get involved with other states problems in order to get these markets. Sometimes this meant taking control of a states government.
-The US did some rather questionable things in order to protect it's interests. One of these is putting Cubans in concentration camps.
-There is a lot of political fallout left from this time period. A big one is what to do with Cuba, though mostly resolved is still not over with. It made a lot of people not like us and others, but fewer from my understanding, like or love us.