Posted by 3 Teresa on November 11, 2011 at 10:23am
most latin america countries were independant by 1830..we looked to imperialist for..money..natural resources..military basis and navy bases..we got pearl harbor..cuba..hawaii..Alaska..we bought it from russia! ppl thought it wa a peice of ice and it was pointless..we bought it for 7.2 million dollars..they did it because they wanted russia out of the western hemesphere..ice was used to keep food from going bad..when we got alaska..ppl thought since it was connected to canado..they thought we were gonna take it over..spain used to control everything!..untill the spanish american war.we took alot of their land..but cuba wanted independance..jose marti..they destroyed american propertyy! he made it think that spain did it!
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