Once Upon a Forest: Macbeth

To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure?

The United States steadily grew from the beginning of its history and it needed more land to support the growing number people that were living on the continent. At first, the Americans felt that they had the God-given right to expand all the way to the Pacific on the North American continent, but when all the land had been taken, they decided that it was time to expand elsewhere in the world. Expansionism has always been in the United States’ history and will always continue if the United States wants to continue to be a world power. The reasons for early and later expansionism in the United States were more or less the same, while the processes the United States went through to expand and the areas it expanded into were different in the later expansionist era of the United States.
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