... 1845 the U.S. annexed Texas because they felt that, that land belonged to them and that it was our duty to help them become one of us. In Theodore Roosevelt's Annual Message to Congress on December 6, 1904, Roosevelt made a statement about the expansion that the U.S. was involved in and said that America isn't empire hungry, we are just worried about the poor countries around ... the international police. In 1823 President James Monroe proclaimed the Monroe Doctrine which stated that the U.S. had the right to intervene with foreign policies. In 1904 Theodore Roosevelt added to the Monro...

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... that is not always what has happened. Starting with the Indians and ending with the Filipinos. The United States feels a sense of superiority over nations as to this very day. Theodore Roosevelt shows this very sense of control in his Annual Message to Congress, "If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political ... matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States." In this address to Congress, Theodore Roosevelt also states the opinion of the nation, the idea of supremacy. As...

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... of expansion was widespread. The Monroe Doctrine even glanced southward into and beyond the Caribbean. Captain A. T. Mahan (well-known propagandist for expansion) was influential to American leaders as well as Theodore Roosevelt. He said that the biggest navies would inherit the earth, which was their Manifest Destiny. Now, it's time for them to set their eyes on inheritance other than within the ... expand and want what they do not have (expand their sight and goals; take more land). Trade is very important to American merchants, and foreign trade was of greater relevance. Theodore Roo...

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