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| belief that US should expand its territory |
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| Many business leaders and politicains believed it would provide the country with more economic markets and greater potenial for economic growth.Others felt it was in order maintain national security. More believed it was part of country's destiny and crucial to maintaining a nationalist spirit. |
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| SIGNIFIGANCE OF PACIFIC IN US EXPANSION |
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| political leaders and businessmen in the US wanted trade with SE asian countrys and saw pacific ocean as trade way |
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| Spanish colony close to US. War broke out between Spansh and US when Cubans rebelled in 1800s |
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| US VS SPAIN in Cuba and the Phillipinnes lasting less than 3 months ending in Cubas freedom and US annexing Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillipinnes |
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| added to Cuban Constitution to limit what they could do, gave US control of 2 bases in Cuba and gave them the right to interveen in the region when they felt necessary |
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| Canal built in Panama to allow ships to be able to go back and forth without going around South America |
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| period where reformers called for political,social, and economic change |
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| People who exposed scandal in US businesses and gov. given name by Teddy Roosevelt |
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| muckraker and author of 1906's The jungle, this influence FDA |
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| PROGRESSIVE WHO CREATED THE HULL HOUSE A SETTLEMENT HOUSE IN CHICAGO |
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| MOVEMENT THAT WANTED TO LIMIT AND EVENTUALLY ADVOCATED ELIMINATING ALCOHOL |
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