Short Answer Essay: 1. To what degree was late nineteenth and early twentieth century imperialism a departure from
previous U. S. foreign policy.
2. To what degree was late nineteenth and early twentieth century imperialism a continuation of
previous U. S. foreign policy.
3. Julius Pratt, Expansionists of 1898 (1951).
"The Manifest Destiny of the 1840s had been largely a matter of emotion. Much of it had
been simply one expression of a half-blind faith in the superior virility of the American race
and the superior beneficence of American political institutions. In the intervening years,
much had been done to provide this emotional concept with a philosophic backing. ... Far-
fetched and fallacious as their reasoning may appear to us, it nevertheless carried
conviction. ... The observation must be made that the rise of an expansionist philosophy in
the United States owed little to economic influences. . . . The need of American business for
colonial markets and fields for investment was discovered not by businessmen but by
historians and other intellectuals, by journalists and politicians."
a) Briefly explain how ONE development from the period 1865 to 1898 not directly
mentioned in the excerpts supports Pratt's argument.