19th Century American Imperialism Essay

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In 1897, under the guidance of of president’s Willian McKinley, the United States had the victory over the Spanish and American war in 1898. During this time, the American empire invaded Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii and the Philippines and became a big American Imperialism in U.S history. The United States decided to make Puerto Rico and Guam became an insular area under the sovereignty of the United States, organized territory but not incorporated in the United States. Hawaii became a parts of the U.S and last Philippines had rules under by the U.S for many years before gave them the right to self-government. During the late 19th century and early 20th century, the United States, England, France and Germany were the same as great powers, super …show more content…

First of all, we have different ideas and we have different ways of solving problem, but the only thing that we have in common that we always love our country. All countries want independent, want to have a right to self-government and want to be free of all. So each country should stay in their place, stay connection and development. President’s McKinley of America and president’s Aguinaldo of Philippines were involved in the struggles of independence. In 1901, Aguinaldo got capture by American’s soldiers and desire self-government for Philippines. President’s McKinley thought that it would be unfit if gave Philippines the right to self- government, he worried that Philippines will have anarchy and more terrible misrule. As in the US, the concept of liberalism meant to social liberalism, while in other areas it is still the original meaning of classical liberalism. Conceptually, liberalism emphasizes the individual rights people. Many advocates of freedom support greater intervention by the state to the free market, often in the form of anti-discrimination legislation, education. These fundamental human rights to which all people by liberals supported the right to live in liberty, and religious

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