Always Wanting More: Imperialism and Expansionism Essay -- American H

Going to the local grocery store while hungry is forever on the list of things not to do. Why? Because while walking up and down the aisles, hunger decides to strike and more grocery items are added to the shopping cart. another(prenominal) not to do idea for grocery shopping is taking little kids along for the trip. Why not for this one? Because the little kids will want horizontal more in the cart than the hunger attack would. The 19th and 20th century United States of the States was the little kids and the hunger attack in the scenario disposed(p) above. America wanted more. They wanted more land, more power, more international influence, and more control.After being under the hands of Britain for majority of the 18th century, America was ready to explode and make a name for their self, and by their self. With this, no one was going to get in the way until America had made a name for itself. The plan may not bring on gone as smoothly as the political figures would have liked, but their plan must have worked. Since America is known for having the most resources and being one of the greatest problem solvers in the world , the game plan of making a name worked successfully. enlargement begins within oneself. America was not completely foolish and began trying to exhort their authority in matters where they did not belong when it was still just an eastern edge country. No, instead Americans and their political authorities had the brilliant idea of Manifest Destiny. The United States did not try to expand in any international way instead they followed the baby steps method. Manifest Destiny was the beginning to expansion that will probably never end. With this, America expanded physically as well as mentally. The Manifest Destiny idea gave Americans the moti... ...hens, GA, September 26, 2011.Farber, David. Taken Hostage The Iran Hostage Crisis and Americas First Encounter With Radical Islam. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, 2005.Logli, Michael. G reencastle Banner-Graphic Local News Lee Hamilton dialog about American influence in the world (3/16/11). Banner Graphic. March 16, 2011. http//www.bannergraphic.com/story/1710813.html (accessed November 22, 2011).Platt Amendment. CourseReader. Detroit Gale, 2010.President Dwight D. Eisenhower Explains the Domino Theory. Public Papers of the Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954. Washington U.S. organisation Printing Office, 1958. 381-90. CourseReader. Detroit Gale, 2010.University of Houston. Westward Expansion Manifest Destiny. Digital History. 2006. http//www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=311 (accessed November 22, 2011).