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Haiti, Smedley Butler, and the Rise of American Empire

Deconstructed

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The Philippine Adventure

In 18 a, 92, the director of the us. Census declares that the frontieris, at that point inow, for all intentss closed. An historian, a young historian named frederick jackson turner at the university wisconsin says this portends doom. The philippine adventure was certainly expensive in terms of dollars spent by the government, but the resources that were extracted from the philippines start to fuel the consumer economy here in the early part of the twentieth century. That then kind of becomes the outlet for a lot of unrest and alienation that's coming from theo it's the transition that the united states is going through into fact.

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