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A. imperialist stirrings
1. From the end of the Civil War in the 1880s the US isolated itself the outside world the US was becoming increasingly outward looking as the exports of manufactured goods & agricultural products shot up
2. the US was given a new sense of power generated by: increasing population, wealth, industrial production
3. the US was suffering from labor violence & agrarian unrest so the US hoped overseas markets would relieve such pressures
4. other forces also stimulated overseas expansion
a. The yellow press of Hearst and Pulitzer got the public wanting excitement abroad
b. Rev. Strong's book our country: its possible future and its present crisis inspired missionaries to spread their religion and values backwards People
c. Americans were interpreting Darwinism to mean that the Earth belonged to the strong and the fit "the US"
5. Africa was separated by European countries in a crazy unorganized rush of colonial conquest
6. Japan, Germany, and Russia......

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