To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century US expansionism a continuation of past US expansionism and to what extent was it a departure?

Answer 1

Well it was a continuation of past US expansionism because the US still believed that they had a God given right to expand, take what they could, and purify the culture (very similar to thoughts of manifest destiny), and the US wanted to expand their economy and power throughout the world. The difference was that instead of expanding within the confines of America they began national expansion into places such as the Philippines.