To What Extent Was Late Nineteenth-Century And Early Twentieth-Century United States Expansionism A Continuation Of Past United States Expansionism And To What Extent Was It A Departure?
There were many similarities in the United State's expansion during the late nineteenth/twentieth century compared to the beginning of the United States early expanding. Among similarities of expansion include the way they did; force (war), purchases, benefits of resources, also the reasoning of God's will. Differences though were mainly for expanding, as well as where they tried to expand.
One of the continuations, was the idea that God had given us this divine right to expand whether moving west of to other places, ideas related to John O'Sullivan's "Manifest Destiny" and then the New Manifest Destiny, as well as the idea of social Darwinism, which gave excuse for taking lands from the Filipinos or Native Americans based on racial superiority. Josiah Strong based part of his belief on America's superiority on them being the "purist Christianity the highest civilization." And led to the statement of America being the fittest in the western hemisphere. This all leads to America......
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