![]() ![]() ![]() American banks funded these ventures, even going so far as to become creditors to foreign treasuries. produce and energy companies, however, wanted access to the natural resources of these places and native labor to extract and process them. Missionaries and politicians wanted to spread civilization, build roads and schools, and uplift the lives of natives in these exotic locales. ![]() That expansionist impulse then spilled overseas to places such as Hawaii and the Philippines. Americans’ history of westward expansion across North America culminated with the closing of the frontier in 1890. Credit: Alamy New Wars for an Expansionist CenturyĪfter the Spanish-American War, the United States became an empire in all but name. “The Big Stick in the Caribbean Sea.” This 1904 editorial cartoon takes a jaundiced view of President Theodore Roosevelt’s assertive wielding of the Monroe Doctrine. ![]()
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