Does Imperialism Really Work?

Period 3 Novermber 9, 2000 Does Imperialism Really Work? Imperialism is a policy by a stronger nation to create an empire by dominating weaker nations economically, politically, culturally, or militarily. It doesn't work for the most part. It strains relations between countries and generally creates bad feelings. Almost every time the United States got involved in a foreign place it caused trouble. The main times that strained relations occurred were durring the late eighteen hundreds in Latin America …

…of the islands. The Philipines was expecting independence when they helped America in the Spanish- American War, but instead they got a new owner. Cuba was helped toward its independence by the U.S. but then the Platt Amendment was added to their constitution limiting their contact with countries other than America. Any one of these things would be enough to get on a person's nerves. For the most part nothing good comes from imperialism.