The motivations for American expansionism at the turn of the twentieth century are deeply rooted in its long history of territorial expansion and in its emerging prominence on the world stage. In the 19th century, the United States had expanded from the relatively small combination of thirteen colonies on the eastern seaboard to a country spanning from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, gaining the largest portions through the Louisiana Purchase and the spoils of the Mexican-American War. After Americans had conquered all of this land, though, they were wont of more territor

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