... -Saxon civilization and summoned Americans to spread their religion and their values to the "backward- people. He cats his seed on fertile ground. At the same time, aggressive Americans like Theodore Roosevelt and congressman Henry Cabot Lodge were interpreting Darwinism to mean that the earth belonged to the strong and the fit, and that is, to Uncle Sam. If America was to ... ...
... in our way, so be it. This feeling still existed around the time of the Spanish-American war, and also was a basis for our expansion into Cuba and the Philippines. Theodore Roosevelt personifies this feeling in Document F, "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 ... ...
... of the world powers were trying to take as much new land as possible (Document A). There were also many who said that the US should not take any new land. Theodore Roosevelt said that America had satiated its hunger for new land, but then invaded Cuba on the grounds that America had to be a police force for its international neighbors (Document F). America ... ...
