... the native political structure was too unstable for good commerce without British control. For trade purposes, they concentrated on practicing imperialism in India and the Caribbean. Since the slave trade in Europe was stamped out in the 1830's, the British were not very interested in Africa. People had been one ... to fight their dirty little wars across the globe. With so much of the British Empire dependent on India, it was important to keep the sea lanes around Africa open. This hadn't been a problem until the Franco-Prussian war of 1871. After defeating the French, the Germans trie...

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... State under Lincoln and Johnson, purchased Alaska from Russia. His successors used the new American foothold in the North to declare that the Bering Sea was to be an area in which American authority was absolute. In other areas of the Pacific, as well as in Latin America, ... national interest. During World War II, the United States stationed 65,000 troops in Panama to protect the canal. A number of U.S. interventions in the Caribbean and Central America were undertaken largely to protect the canal from hostile powers. The canal's construction was a phenomenal undertaking. In 1850, U.S. ...

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