Part one of term paper
During the time period including the close of the nineteenth century, with the climax of the industrial revolution, the United States had become an industrialized and more sophisticated nation. The United States now had the resources, technology, and political organization to hold the status of a World Power. Consequently, the United States ...

Part two of term paper
... stage, historians usually argue that the motivations for expansion beyond U.S. borders were influenced more heavily by idealism, or more heavily by self-interest. Those who argue that the most influential factor was idealism believe that the United State's goal in expansion was to literally help create an "ideal" world (in the United State's view). The United States felt a sense of duty to intervene when they observed the situations of different territories such as Cuba, Hawaii, and the Philipp ...