Samoa and U.S. empire

When does Manifest Destiny end and the pursuit of overseas imperialism begin? The Civil War interrupts the two varieties of expansion, one rooted in the 1840s, the other in the late 1890s, and so the question barely rippled through the literature. Despite their obvious separation in time, these two versions of expansion are not so neatly distinguishable. A sense of mission generated both forms of expansion; but the assumptions underlying the actual processes differed

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