annexation

In the early 1900’s the U.S. made some very important choices. The U.S. acquired many territories in this time period. America annexed Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. The United States also intervened in the Cuban War of Independence and gained the control to open and maintain the Panama Canal. I do not believe the U.S. was fair in making any of these choices. It was no their right to decide. The …

…S. expanded, but it did not give some countries the right to decide to become independent. The U.S. took matters into their own hands and decided the fate of its new territories. The motives were greed and power. The U.S. will be known in history as ambitious but not to a dangerous level and greedy. Power and money is the cause to expansion because our country is based on the foundation of capitalism.