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It’s difficult now to imagine a time when the United States was not the world’s most significant power, but in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was an emerging world power that was only beginning to look beyond its borders. In the 1890s, the United States became involved in foreign conflicts, notably the Spanish-American War, in which the US intervened on behalf of Cuban rebels who wanted independence from Spain.In 1901, shortly after the war, Theodore Roosevelt became President following the assassination of William McKinley. Roosevelt had long been an advocate of American expansionism and had become widely popular...