Protectorates and Dependencies.
By 1898, when the Spanish-American War was fought, American territorial claims already included the vast area of Alaska as well as several guano-producing islands in the Pacific. It was the war with Spain, however, that marked the United States’ emergence as a colonial power. As a war measure, the United States annexed the Hawaiian Islands, which were already dominated by American sugar interests and had been the focus of several annexation attempts during the 1890s. With the treaty of peace signed in Paris on ... ...
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