Politics, then joined profits, patriotism, and piety in motivating the expansion of the 1890s. These four impulses interacted to produce the Spanish American War, the annexation of the Philippine Island, and the foreign policy of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Missionaries carried similar western values to non-Christian lands around the world, especially China. Economic relations between china and the United states increased at approximately the same rate as missionary activity.

Senator Albert Beveridge of Indiana bragged in 1898 that ?American factories are making more then the American people can use; American soil is producing more then they can consume. Understanding that commercial expansion required a stronger navy and coaling stations and colonies, business interests began to shape diplomatic a

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