Imperialism and Its Motives

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…walked away with free trade routes, free movement in these territories, and a new sense of power with the grand rewards of reconciliation of this war. The events of the Spanish- American War showed that self-serving, imperialistic motives were behind the tree of noble causes. The want of growth provoked a war. The people and the propagandists made the war possible and are forever written in the history books about the not needed Spanish-American War.