Expansion in American History

Patrick Daley EXPANSIONISM IN AMERICAN HISTORY The expansion that took place in America in the early twentieth-century in many ways was a a departure from previous the expansion of the previous century. On the most basic level, the land to be acquired was different. No more uninhabited (or nearly uninhabited considering the Indians) tracts of contiguous land remained to be gobbled up and made into states. The territories in question were now islands in the …

…Century was in many regards the same as it had been since the Nation’s birth, and in many ways is the same today. Our countries modern leadership has no compulsion about going to war to protect or interests (desert storm), just as Theodore Roosevelt had no problem fighting in the Philippines, and it is hard to imagine that there is any change to the countries general out look to come in the near future.