expansionism
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By 1854, Cuba was one of Spain’s few remaining New World colonies, and Southern expansionists coveted it—and its lucrative sugar plantations—as a new U.S. slave state.
From Barron's • Jan. 18, 2026
"An insular and imperial group of expansionists who see little beyond the net," was one of the more scathing responses.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2023
Despite the fact that cosmopolitans and free-market expansionists are at odds on fairly fundamental issues, they are united in their deep suspicion of the motivations of restrictionists, whom they tend to see as narrow-minded bigots.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2017
Why did expansionists set their sights on the annexation of Spanish Cuba?
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Therefore, it was to circumvent the Northern pacifists quite as much as to undermine the Southern expansionists that he offered compromise and avoided war.
From Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850 by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)
Vocabulary lists containing expansionism
STAAR U.S. History 2
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Chapter 23: Rise to World Power
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