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GDP qudroples and overproduction prompts us to look for new markets
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this concept also influences the U.S. expansion and idea of american exceptionalism
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exspansion comes to an end as the U.S. is now a continental power
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this book encourages the build up of and modernization of the us navy
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the Cubans stage an organized uprising beginning in February of 1895
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fears for america lives in Havana as well as influence of the press lead to the deployment of the USS Maine
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the Maine is sunk off of Cuba leading to an outcry from the U.S. public and press
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the U.S. formally calls for the Spanish to leave Cuba and the teller amendment to this calls for Cuba to remain independent of the us after Spanish withdrawal
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the war begins in April and ends with Spanish defeat shortly after
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spain sues for peace with the treaty signed august 12
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U.S. attempt to gain trading power in china
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us encounters armed resistance to efforts in the Philippines
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poem written to encourage us to assume colonial control of Philippines
