The American politics of 1847-60 assumed that we were not done adding territory south of the border. That really only changed after the defeat of Grant's proposals in 1869-71 to annex Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic).https://twitter.com/HaikuJonah/status/1174439127283949568 …
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Philippines was US territory from 1896-1946 after Spain's defeat in Spanish-American War. President McKinley under great pressure annexed to protect commercial interests from Germany or France.
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