Based upon the documents of chapter 20 write a response to the following question: In reflecting on the expansion of American power around the world at the turn of the century, do you think it was motivated more by moral idealism or by power politics? Why?
Required source: Shi/Mayer For the record 7th edition. We need to analyze the five Documents from Chapter 20:
1. William McKinley from Declaration of War (1878)
2. Albert J. Beveridge from The March of the Flag (1900)
3. from Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League (1899)
4. John Hay from The Open Door in China (1899-1900)
5. from The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)