International Involvement In The 1890s

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By the 1890s, the U.S. was bursting with a new sense of power generated by an increase in population, wealth, and industrial production. As a result, economic expansion, yellow journalism, and competition with other powers to establish an overseas presence turned America away from being isolated and towards having international involvements in the 1890s. In addition, International communications increased interest in and awareness of overseas cultures. The end of the frontier left Americans with expansionist tendencies but no place to exercise them. Moreover, Industrialism had rapidly increased productivity, resulting in surplus production and a need for exporting. Thus, there was a strong need to expand markets, and by 1898 the U.S. was a