Colonized Empire Dbq

The United States is already a powerful country but they wanted to expand more. When expanding, the United States opened an untapped market through other countries and gained more industrial powers and built a stronger empire. Although getting more power cost the United States a great deal of battles, wages and the need for strong militaries, they still overcame. The events the United States went through to achieve such power and have great gains still outweighed those costs. The cost of getting new consumers and being able to stay ahead of any competitors was not always too difficult for the United States, although it came at a steep price due to their war strategies, those strategies caused them to gain the colonies that they were after. “McKinley’s intentions soon became clear: The United States would not grant the Philippines independence. Instead, the United states planned to colonize the islands” (Schaller 666). The ways the United States gained power was not always a good way but they knew that if they did not start colonizing islands first, someone else would do it. Having others colonize some islands that the United states wanted would cause the United states to lose the new markets they wanted to open to expand their empire. Not expanding their empire would make the United states less powerful, and

Such power of overtaking islands and colonizing them led some people to fight back in belief that they could come out from under the ruling of the United States. “The United States spent 400 million to stifle the revolt, and more than 126,000 U.S soldiers fought against the Filipinos rebels” (Schaller 670). The attempt of rebelling against the United States shown them how strong and determined the United States were in keeping their power and control. Continually the price paid was nothing compared to the gains they