The 250 year timeframe is made up and even if it wasn’t the US couldn’t realistically be described as an empire until some time in the 1900’s. Until then it was “just” a genocidal colonial power like the others. I guess you could make an argument that it became an empire around the time of Teddy or the monroe doctrine, but I wouldnt
The 250 year timeframe is made up and even if it wasn’t the US couldn’t realistically be described as an empire until some time in the 1900’s. Until then it was “just” a genocidal colonial power like the others. I guess you could make an argument that it became an empire around the time of Teddy or the monroe doctrine, but I wouldnt
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I would say probably the Spanish-American War.
Remember: the Maine was a pretense for continued expansionism.