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American Imperialism
To become a major naval power, the United States began to replace its wooden sailing ships with steel vessels powered by coal or oil in 1883. But control of the seas would also require the acquisition of naval bases and coaling stations. Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm had copies of Mahan's books placed on every ship in the German High Seas Fleet and the Japanese gov-ernment put translations in its im-perial bureaus. (continued at the top of page 2) By 1890, the United States had by far the world's most productive economy. American industry pro-duced twice as much as its closest competitor--Britain.
parts of this vision. In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from Russia for $72 million and occupied the Midway Islands in the Pacific. ... Henry Cabot Lodge, a powerful member of the Senate Committee on Foreign relations, strongly urged the country to …
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