... Monroe pass the Monroe doctrine. Doctrain shows that don"t put colony on south if we don"t have it. Any interfere would be threat to our government. In 1865 U.S became the supreme power of the world. U.S had commercial interests in south. They wanted to make south independence. Congress passes the ... each other out from business. So they needed strong news to type in their news paper. They always lie about headline. They wrote about Cuban people. They wrote how they suffering so American people wanted to help Cuba to get their independence. Big corporation were pushing congress to help...

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... American War in 1898 and the results of it changed America's view of expansion. The war with Spain was not fought over territory but for Cuban independence, yet war and the results of the Treaty of Paris gained the United States imperial status. The explosion of the US battleship Maine ... of the debt of almost 400 million. Spain owed creditors who had invested in Cuba and due to the poor economic state of Spain the Spanish government was not able to repay these investors. 9 The United Sates gained credibility through dealings with Cuba by having a firm policy that it wanted ... States ...

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... by partaking in Imperialism. (Doc A.) So, despite the fact that nationalism played a big part in US Imperialism, many of its goals and motivations lead straight to commercialism. In 1895, the Cuban people staged an uprising against the fraudulent Spanish tyrants that governed them. In 1896, sympathizing with their desires for freedom, the American people and Congress were all too ready and ... . The Spanish-American war was fueled by $50 million invested in Cuba and an annual $100 million in trade. The United States was protecting their COMMERCIAL interests, not fighting for Cuban freedo...

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... , an opportunity came up to annex Hawaii. Yet, the U.S. declined. The Dole Family saw this as an opening and took over the island, along with setting up their version of government. In 1898, the U.S. became involved in the war between Cuba and Spain. The U.S. took the side of Cuba since it wanted to be freed from Spain, but it would also ... were present "Cuba was not. One stipulation of the peace treaty was that the same Spanish authority would remain in control until Cuba could create its own form of government. In addition, the U.S. had to approve the constitution of Cuba. Yet, the U....

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