It wouldn't have the chance to show off these powers until the Spanish-American War. America was outraged with the inhumain way, Spain was treating the Cubans. Civilians were being locked up in prison camps and dying by the thousands, as punishment for a Cuban guerrilla revolt. The Sinking of the U.S. Battleship The Maine further infuriated the American pubic and Spain declared war on April 24, 1898. The fist battle was fought across the world in the Philippines. On May 1st 1898 Commordore Dewey's fleet cornered the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay and destroyed it. With this decisive victory America saw its chance to gain a valuable foothold in the Asian market by controlling the Philippines. Hawaii was annexed within months due to it being the halfway point to the Philippines, Americas empire was growing faster than anyone predicted. Spain eventually surrendered in Cuba, giv

I would argue that U.S. involvement in W.W.I was more Progressive than Imperialistic, but not in a purely Progressive sense. Considering Progressives were highly opposed to the war, Republicans, Democrats and the Populist Party all opposed our involvement. The American Union against Militarism, and the Women's Peace Party both denounced the war and supported American neutrality at all costs. However, in President Wilson's declaration of war speech he attempts to sell Progressives on the war by saying, our involvement will make the world "safe for democracy" (Wilson 618). He also says by helping win the war, "we would earn a place at the peace table, where it would spread the country's democratic ideas to the rest of the world" (Wilson 618). This is of course refers to the underlying point in the Progressive idea of "Manifest Destiny"--our moral duty to spread democracy and capitalism to the rest of the world. Now these are just words that Wilson uses to gain support for the war, but one could argue that they are both Progressive and empirical in nature. The "Manifest Destiny" connection of the U.S.'s i

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