... always been expansionistic, but had limited itself to North America, Americans were hungry for empire. In documents C and D the anti-imperialist side of America is looked over. This is a political game that will prove to be a tough fight. A strong advocate, Mark Twain makes it clear in Document C that this is a well debated topic and both sides need to be viewed before ... making a final decision. He argues that America was to content with itself, we needed to spread our wings, and what a better opportunity to do that with than the Philippines. America used the ... ...

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... find out if this is possible, scientists would have "to extract cellular material from the mammoth fossils" (www.discovery.ca/mammoth/extinction-climate.cfm) and run a series of tests. The final possibility for the disappearance of mammoths and mastodons is that they were hunted to extinction. Skilled hunters, called the Clovis, were methodical predators who pursued their prey to the point ... of extinction (www.discovery.ca/mammoth/extinction-overkill.cfm). During the ice ages "big game was not only plentiful, but also slow-moving and easy to kill" (www.discovery.ca/mammoth/extinction-...

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