What motives were behind American overseas expansion in the 1890s?
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In the 1890s, the United States began to extend its political reach and economic dominance to other parts of the world.
Americans saw overseas populations as potential consumers of American goods, producers of goods Americans wanted, and objects of American benevolence.
Reformers justified expansion by arguing that the inferiority of these peoples demanded that Americans instruct, convert, and exert political control over them.
The country’s mighty industrial manufacturing sector demanded new markets and a wider consumer base.
The depression of 1893 convinced many Americans that the nation’s industrial production was outstripping domestic demand.
Some supporters of expansion used the new languages of race and masculine virility to justify an “Anglo-Saxon” mission of conquest of “childlike” peoples.
Many Americans believed that the United States should join the international competition to exploit the natural resources and trade potential of weaker countries.
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