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Spanish American War Dbq

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At the height of the Gilded Age, the want of power outside of the American borders controlled the causes and ends of war, specifically the Spanish-American War. A war that lead a country whose history was founded on independence to seek dominance over its own colonies. There were two clear opinions to this imperialist stance, for and against. Both opinions were ironically based in the same general ideas only with different perspectives on them. Arguments and questions based on morality, economic stability, and God given purposes. These sent the American identity to be under constant scrutiny and a general feeling of hypocrisy accompanied it. Imperialists like most anybody does within an argument felt completely justified in their actions and
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