Early expansion occurred to establish the very growing United States. Marveled be newly discovered wonders we set west to undiscovered lands. Once settled for years internal improvements were made. Improvements such as railways, canals, and roads were made to better the acquired land.

The United States saw themselves as a dominant power for the first time. This is the only reason expansionism changed. The United States was looked upon as a gatekeeper, as shown in "American Diplomacy." I believe in during the early days of expansion the cause was new land for inhabitants to occupy. Later it became new land to control for reasons directly related to bettering the nation standpoint. In many cases late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century expansionism were identical to that of past expansionism although there was as stated a departure from that mold.

The Philippines was an area strictly brought into interest simply by location. Why enable someone else to acquire a trade route before the United States? As Sen. Albert Beveridge shows in his speech to Congress, citizens at this time felt a sense of need to make better by not abandoning the opportunity. If left alone the Philippines would have surly been sought after by the European nations and Japan, as said by Alfred Mahan. This is where the differences come into play, before the objective was Manifest Destiny now the United States is not to be out done. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries expansionism was looked upon as if we as a nation are not gaining ground then we are loosing ground. Never before now was this the basic principle of expansion. Alfred T. Mahan states, "The position of the United States, between the two Old Worlds and the two great oceans, makes the same claim, which will soon be strengthened by the creation of the new link joining the Atlantic and Pacific."

As stated earlier the United States had a policy where no one had to be "hurt" everyone could make out in the long run. The Indians, wer

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