history essay

Following the 1870’s the United States shifted from focusing on internal affairs such as Reconstruction to furthering its international presence(SAT US, 1). This was motivated by a few major factors; political, economic, social influences. The United States was a relatively new nation, and so it needed to be noticed as a strong power economically and politically. In addition, the success of the American form of government encouraged sentiments of Anglo-Saxonism to arise in the U.S. In particular, such sentiments led Americans to believe that they (Europeans included) were superior and saw the unfortunate and meager conditions of other non European/American countries as evidence of their “inferiority” (McSherry, 10). These sentiments compounded with the fervent interest in expanding economically and being a strong political power led to the solution of adopting imperialist policies. Imperialism expanded the nation’s economic market, political presence on an international level and allowed Americans to help the “inferior” peoples of the Americas. The political and economic interests to expand were strong enough to lead the U.S. into investing millions in sugar plantations in Cuba (Background, 1 ). During this time Cuba was a territory of Spain. Cuba and Spain were constantly at war with one another for the independence of Cuba. American journalists took this fact and altered much of the truth by adding on several untruthful accounts of many horrors done to the Cubans by the Spanish. Eventually, after the explosion of an American battle ship in a Cuban harbor, the U.S. declared war on Spain.

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The absence of WMD has never really been solved. .

You tell people to write about yellow journalism? may I ask why?