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Explain How Did American Leaders Justify Overseas Expansion And Ventures In The 1890s

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How did American leaders justify overseas expansion and ventures in the 1890s? Not all Americans agreed - how did some oppose to this policy? American leaders justified overseas expansion by saying that they were “civilizing” the world. According to our textbook, imperialists justified the expansion of western power by saying that they were bringing modern civilization to the non-European world (Foner, 678). This “civilizing” included teaching “Western values, labor practices, and the Christian religion.” They weren’t satisfied with forcing their culture on all the natives of the North American continent, instead white Americans thought they needed to spread the “civilized” western culture to the rest of the world. One prominent clergyman
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