TO BUILD AN EMPIRE

“DESPITE THE ASSURANCE OF THE TELLER AMENDMENT, AMERICA WOULD CONTINUE TO DOMINATE THE CUBAN ECONOMY”

This cartoon depicting America as a world power after the Spanish-American War appeared on the cover of the humour magazine Puck in 1901

“HISTORICAL OBSERVERS HAVE ASSERTED THAT THE UNITED STATES WAS FOUNDED ON A POLICY OF EXPANSION – ITS OWN BRAND OF IMPERIALISM”

Well beyond the first century of its existence, the United States pursued a foreign policy of expansionism. Although it