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Expansion

            Since the beginning of the United States we have been faced with the challenge of expansion and how to achieve it. As people started to move to the U.S., the U.S. started to get bigger as well land wise and were moving westward. People were able to move westward because the government made decisions to buy and win land. But as time went on things started to shift from what they use to be. During the late 1800's and early 1900's America expanded and improved their already existing way of expansion by buying more and different land to help the U.S. economy and by winning land through negotiations because of the feeling of manifest destiny nevertheless, the U.S. also changed in the way they were expanding because now they were trying gaining the highest power in the world and becoming the international police. .
             The U.S. expanded from just the 13 original colonies to help profit America's economy by gaining more land with different types and more resources through numerous amounts of purchases. A lot of agriculture in the world today comes from the mid-west of the United State. Before the Spanish-American war, the U.S. had gained the whole continent. In 1803 America purchased the Louisiana territory from France, this purchased doubled the size of the U.S. Much of this land was land that was used for agricultural growth. In 1819 the Florida Cession took place and the U.S. bought Florida from Spain. After the Spanish-American war, America started to buy land that wasn't on the continent; they wanted to expand into the oceans and further. Shortly after the war started, the U.S purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 as an accident. But in the end it was beneficial to the U.S. Many defended the U.S. expanding beyond the continent as a good thing because it helped us gain more raw materials. In Alfred T. Mahan's writing The Interest of America in Sea Power (1897) it says that America has a need and will to expand to help deal with the great demands because they need more raw materials.


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1. Late Nineteenth Century American Expansionism

Question To what extent was the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? ... Similarly, the Industrial Revolution served as a catalyst for expansion, especially in the late 1800s and early 1900s, by supplying more military goods, sparking a desire for wealth and profit through innovation, and developing new methods for expansion. While the basic motivations for the United States expansion of desire for land and power, and manifest destiny remained, the means for actin...

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2. European Expansion and the New World

Early causes for European Expansion derived from many different aspects. ... Improvement in technology also played a major part in the European Expansion. ... European Expansion brought along many consequences in its time. ... Capitalism rose due to the growth of city life as well as trade expansion. ... European Expansion introduced the Europeans to many new "things". ...

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3. Expansionism

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4. Expansionism

Expansionism has been an enormously beneficial factor to the United States. ... Expansionism showed many similarities to that of the earlier expansionism. ... Never before now was this the basic principle of expansion. ... This is also a departure from later expansionism. ... This is the only reason expansionism changed. ...

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5. expansionism

American Expansion During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States pursued an aggressive policy of expansionism, extending its political and economic influence around the globe. ... Throughout the 19th century and the twentieth century, Americans discussed and debated issues connected to expansion. However, there was many similarities and differences in the American expansionism during those two centuries. ... For the sake of expansionism, the Americans risked their lives and their safety in wars. ... On one side of the debate stood those in favor of expansion...

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6. Expansionism

The expansionism of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century was mostly a continuation of the expansionism of American history based on the reasons of protection, power, and profit. ... America was already doing great by earlier expansionism into the West. ... Similar to past expansionism, the years up to 1914 were also focused on moving West. ... Expansionism perhaps is an idea that has been around since the Greeks and the Romans. ... The late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century time of expansionism was not a departure from expansionism of the past, but a...

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7. Amazon.com

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8. Causes of the Civil War

The primary cause of the Civil War was not states" rights; the primary causes of the Civil War were the expansion of slavery and sectionalism. ... The first major debate over the expansion of slavery was when Missouri wanted to be a slave state upsetting the balance of free and slave states. ... The last and most bitter controversy of the expansion of slavery was the Kansas- Nebraska Controversy. ... During the expansion of slavery westward, the South was concerned about the compromises because of the North's ignorance to adhere to the conditions of the compromises. ... The issue of s...

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9. Territorial Expansion

rom 1800 to 1850 territorial expansion tore the United States apart. Territorial expansion itself was not a debated issue. ... The issue of annexation was closely linked to the issue of expansion of slavery. ... From 1800 to 1850 America saw a growth in territorial expansion. This expansion, aided by sectionalism and the slavery issue, eventually tore the United States apart. ...

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