HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 71: Spanish Empire, American Imperialism, Truman Doctrine
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White settler colony tat the american was fighting against slavery. There are some contractions because it is no include women or even enslaved people. Americans have the duty to spread there values through the act of settlement. Depicts wars and conflicts that happened because of the american expansion. The population of the american settlers are growing. We are going to take the land and we don"t do it by force and. The idea that the internal colonization was always part of amrican intensions. How americans saw themselves in the western hemisphere. Wants to gain independence of south america etc. Monroe doc served as a powerful shaper to interfere of the affairs in its hemisphere to feel that if anything is threatened. Cuba demanded independence and turned to us for help. Us had millions of dollar invested in cuba and the sugar trade. They were dived whether to agree to __ in the us.