DBQ

DBQ- To what extent was the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? Use the documents and your knowledge of United States history to 1014 to construct your answer.
The United States has been an expansionist country since the pilgrims landed. Until the US established them selves as a definite world power, they had shown themselves to be a very expansionist country. The early twentieth-century US expansionism is a continuation of late nineteenth-century expansionism. America has, since its creation, been a nation full of pride, a pride that sometimes leads it to become too big for its britches, if you will. In these situations the US decides it knows what’s best for the rest of the world.



	By the mid-1700 the British Colonies is North America began to develop a greater sense of identity, unity and independence, due to the newly imposed duties .... (1302 5 )

	The people that settled in the New England and Chesapeake regions were of the same English decent, but by 1700, they had developed extremely different economies .... (807 3 )

	New England became a safe refuge for separatists fleeing religious persecution in England. They were seeking a place to freely practice their beliefs. .... (763 3 )

	Even Though New England and the Chesapeake Region were settled mainly by people from England, later the regions both became two distinct societies. .... (526 2 )

	During the mid to late 1800 's, the American economy boomed and expanded at an astonishing rate due to rapid industrialization, wealth of natural resources .... (756 3 )

After the United States had established its self as a world power, its expansionism did not stop there, the US then set its newly superior sights on the country’s it needed to fix, or own, namely the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Hawaii. Not to say that the other world powers weren’t picking and choosing what they wanted too, Britain and Japan were picking up all the weak territory’s they could on the other side of the world (Document A).

Many key Americans, historically, have had their own opinions as to this expansionism. Josiah Strong, a prominent Congregationalist minister from Ohio, thought that America needed to claim as many of the unoccupied lands of the world, as it could, in order to further the Anglo-Saxon race (Document B). Alfred T Mahan thought, that the United States needed to expand for military, and ec