Imperialism
What is Imperialism?
-a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
Anti-Imperialist League
Formed to fight U.S. annexation of the Philippines, citing a variety of reasons ranging from the economic to the legal to the racial to the moral.
What is the "White Man's Burden?"
The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands, by Rudyard Kipling, is a poem about the Philippine–American War, which exhorts the United States to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country
Alfred Thayer Mahan (ATM)
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century."