Imperialism is a policy by a stronger nation to create an empire by

dominating weaker nations economically, politically, culturally, or militarily. It

doesn't work for the most part. It strains relations between countries and generally

creates bad feelings. Almost every time the United States got involved in a foreign

place it caused trouble. The main times that strained relations occurred were

durring the late eighteen hundreds in Latin America and the far east. Hawaii, for

example, was annexed when the government that was in place there was working

perfectly fine. The Filipino people rebeled against the United States forces when

they became a territory of the U.S. Cuba was helped toward independence by the

U.S., but they also put an amendment in their constitution that limited their trade

and involvement with countries other than the U.S. very greatly. I agree with the

liked for it to be. After Cuba had been having problems with Spain for a while,

Amendment. The provisions included not letting the Cuban government enter in

removed from power. Shortly after this Hawaii was annexed by the United States

they justified themselves by saying that the Filipino people were unfit to govern

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