... United States ships blockaded the island. A few days later on the other side of the world in Hong Kong, upon recognition of the state of war, United States Commodore George Dewey began a pre-prescribed plan of attack on the Spanish fleet parked in Manila on the Philippine archipelago. On May 1st 1898, Dewey's Pacific fleet wiped out the Spanish fleet in the Philippines with the death of only one American sailor. With the Spanish protectorate of the Philippines now in ... United States possession, American forces prepared for the deployment ... ...

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... Americans had a fine intent on helping the citizens of other nations to forget their "backwards" ways of living, America almost always had some sort of gain when "helping" other nations. The ideal of expansionism was taken too far during this time period, until the point of imperialism. The hypocritical treatment of the people who lived in the Philippines, the devious way that America conned ... their way into owning the Panama Canal, and the way in which America imposed their ideals upon Hawaii are all examples of the lengths that the US would go through to expand the nation. Many of t...

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... disputes. Yet, this was the embodiment of the aggressive American mood at the time, which was to put itself on the same platform as other world powers. As the importance of possessing a powerful navy was pointed out by Captain Mahan in his book, America sought to gain power by sea. The navy the Americans would come to build would pay dividends within the next decade of the Spanish-American war. A public outcry for justice ... appealed to President Cleveland in 1895 for aid to the Cuban revolt, a rebellion against Spanish misrule ... ...

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... with each other for prominence, while repelling the invading Spaniards in times of war as well. The American Colonisation In 1899, the Spanish colonial rule was replaced by American colonial rule. The Americans professed a theory of rule that prepared the Philippines for decolonization and self-rule, a process which took 47 years to accomplish. While the American colonial process started off similar to the Spanish, with the use of military force to subdue Filipino settlements ... well as their belief in their royal lineage, the American leadership slowly incorporated unofficial methods ...

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... of Anglo-Saxon decent. The Spanish American War marked the emergence of the United States as a world power. This brief war lasted less than four months from April 25 to August 12, 1898. A number of factors contributed to the United States decision to go to war against Spain. These included the Cuban struggle for independence, American imperialism and the sinking of the United States warship "Maine". As a result of the war Spain ceded Guam, Puerto ... pay $10 million, plus an annual fee of $250,000 per year. The total cost of the construction of the Canal was nearly $400 million dollars....

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... whether this is significant after the Spanish-American War itself. The American acquisition of the Philippines in the Spanish-American War provided the United States with a base of operations in the Orient, from where they could theoretically enforce such a policy. In a political cartoon from 1900, America is depicted as holding the key of "American Diplomacy" to the "Open Door" to China, and stands in front of the door while the other powers look on (Doc G). Another justification for imperialism ... for the shift of American foreign policy to imperialism are the Monroe Doctrine and its...

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