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Becoming a World Power
Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. Identify two or three major foreign policy pronouncements that influenced nineteenth-century American policies.
  2. Explain each of the four major motivations for American expansionism in the 1890s.
  3. Describe the series of events that led to the Spanish-American War and those that led to the annexation of and war with the Philippines.
  4. State several arguments for and against the annexation of the Philippines.
  5. Locate each of the following on a map and state why it is important.



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