Introduction

Because Americans also suffered during the time they were a British colony and because they had fought for their independence, most of them didn’t like the idea of colonizing other nations like they were colonized. Although, there were two groups of Americans that did like the idea. The first one, because of ambition, wanted to make of the United States a world power, colonizing like the Europeans. And the second group, because of business interests,  welcomed the opening of new markets and trade possibilities. Three of their important conquests were Hawaii, Puerto rico and the Philippines.

• Puerto rico
• Philippines
• Hawaii