A New Form of Expansion

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A New Form of Expansion Before the start of the Spanish-American War of the late nineteenth-century and World War I in the early twentieth century, the United States had encouraged expansion as being a way of gaining power. For example, the Frontier thesis, conveyed that it is through the expansion of new lands that humanity would continue to progress. Also the United States portrayed its impatience to expand through Manifest Destiny: the desire to expand from sea to sea with the goal to own and cultivate as much land as possible. However, as the late nineteenth and early twentieth century appeared, America experienced a change. It grew from an ambitious, power-seeking country, to the beginnings as the wealthiest and a superpower. America, it seemed, became a country that helped the world, not itself, through expansion. Though the path of the United States' expansion was nonstop in its plan for Manifest Destiny; through trade, foreign policy, and social class evidence, it can be confirmed that in the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth century, the "new world-power" was looked upon as a dependent source to 3rd-world countries and the United States' reason for its departure from its continual past of expansionism, was to maintain order and promote individual country constancy. To keep order, the United States misused their right to economical power. Although the U.S hoped for logical foreign policy, they seemed to abuse their economical power at the same time, by looking out for the "growing production of the country" (Doc C) and it's promotions that "enables a country to extend its influences outward" ( Doc C). The a... ... middle of paper ... ...her hand, as the immigrants began to enter the American work force, Roosevelt used his "Square Deal" to declare that he would use his powers as a president to safeguard the rights of the workers. Within America and throughout foreign countries, the efforts of expansion by the United States proceeded to continue their old goal of maintaining Manifest Destiny and expanding their economic power globally. Yet, they began to form a new course of expansion which leads to the support of world wide stability and order. Their way of thinking for achieving this was not obtained by believing to become a world superpower, yet brought upon the United States by the foreign masses of underdeveloped countries, which relied on them for political, economical, and social stability in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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