[book id='' /]The American Imperialism expansion prominently begun at the turn of the century. The 1890s expansion comprised of two different types of land acquisition. One was the agrarian expansion inaugurated under Jefferson and pursued by the democrats.

The land was acquired for cultivation as indicated by Rystad Göran in Dreams and Reality- Republic of Empire?

The other reason was oversees annexation which developed as parallel movement to industrialization of America. The later was significant for American Naval expansion, Island trade centers and spheres of control.

This demand led to acquisition of The Philippines Island, the Puerto Rico and also annexes Hawaii in 1898. The European Spain was chased out of Cuba during that “splendid little war of 1898“ in order to perfect the hegemony of the United States over the New World as a whole.

After its defeat by the American Navy in May 1, 1898, Spain was made to abandon all sovereignty over Cuba, Puerto Rico as well as yield the Philippines and Guam to the USA for twenty million dollars.

The expansion based on so called national interests and also veiled in moral and idealistic motives with a perception of reality colored by deterministic ideas about destiny with the argument raging from culture and religion to racial consideration.


The Anglo-Saxon believed that it had dominion on the world. Their mission is to lead political civilization in the modern world and to bring this civilization to the barbarous races (Professor of political science-Burges) since it is in the interest of world civilization that law, order and true liberty, which is its corollary, should reign throughout the world”