Effects+of+the+Spanish-American+War

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By the end of the [|Spanish American war], the [|United States] goals were greatly achieved. The war ended by the [|Treaty of Paris], which was signed on December 10, [|1898]. The terms that were agreed to in the treaty were as followed, In [|Asia] and [|Europe], shipping routes and military stations were set up, giving the Americans much power to over sea land. Cuba was freed, but was under American rule. [|Puerto Rico], Guam, Philippines, and many small islands in the sea between, were given to the United States, for a very inexpensive price. The islands of the Philippines were given to the United States for only 20 million dollars. This war was the first step for American [|Imperialism], and gave it good ground work for it to proceed. Also, it tied America more closely to Latin America.

It is not true that the United States feels any land hunger or entertains any projects as regards the other nations of the Western Hemisphere save such as are for their welfare. All that this country desires is to see the neighboring countries stable, orderly and prosperous....Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention...[and] force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an internal police power. --Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904 http://www.hfac.uh.edu/gl/us27.htm