we took several colonies from spain after the Spanish American war, we got puerto rico, which after we took it, the military ran it, until the forker act put in a civilian goverment. the president selected the upper house, and the people of puerto rico selected the lower half. eventually we made them citizens of america and let them select their entire goverment. today they are of the American Common wealth. they are just like anyone else, except they cant vote for president.before we went to wart with spain, we promised cuba we wouldnt invade, but after the war we aided them in many ways, but cuba wasnt wanting any help because of the frear we would replace spain. when cuba made their constitution, we demanded several things to be added. baswically, theyre a free country, but we run their affairs.we also got the Philiepenes, of which we didnt give indeapendance, we did give them independance after ww2. some fililpenoes wanted freedom, most of the soldiers were black, and some went to the filipenoes side.eventually we looked towards china looking for a trading partner, we feared that china would get taken over by Europeon powers and unabl to trade with China. so we made an open door policy, insuring chinas freedom. their was a society in china who watned to get rid of foriegn people. they killed many foerigners, the foreign powers sent troops over to stop the boxers rebellion.
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