PLEASE HELP 10 QUESTION US HISTORY QUIZ The obvious victims of this expansion-slash-imperialism were the Native Americans, but we can also include the Mexicans who lost their sovereignty after 1848.

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The empires of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were different because they were colonial in their own special way.

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But make no mistake, underneath it all, imperialism was all about trade (money and power).

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Among the most vocal was Indiana Senator Albert Beveridge, who argued that imperialism was benevolent and would bring a new day of freedom.

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There were also non-racist anti-imperialists who argued that empire itself, with its political domination of conquered people, was incompatible with democracy. Which to be fair, it is. The Democratic Party.

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The Philippians were treated similarly to Puerto Rico in a series of cases between 1901 and 1904, collectively called the Insular Cases.

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Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the Filipino rebellion against Spain, quickly turned against the U. S. because his real goal was independence, and it appeared the U. S. would not provide it.

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The Platt amendment in the Cuban Constitution authorized American military intervention whenever it saw fit, and gave us a permanent lease for a naval base at Guantanamo Bay.

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A more important battle was that of Manila Bay, in which Commodore George Dewey destroyed a tiny Spanish fleet and took the Philippines.

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By far America's best piece of imperial business before 1898 was Hawaii.

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