Dasmyn Grigsby
Chapter 12
Major issues

In everyday languages and lingo, imperialism tends to be a vague term with implications that often make it an epithet of rather indiscriminate abuse. Yet it is still a term that students of history should not be afraid of using, provided they do so with some care. In a universal sense imperialism means the exercise of power by one state or one people over another. It is acceptable to talk about the expansion of ancient Rome at the expense of its neighbors as ‘Roman imperialism’ or to talk about ‘Spanish imperialism’ in America in the sixteenth century. U.S. imperialism is very key and important to how our country will remain a strong country among the other countries. American imperialism has been a part of United States history ever since the American Revolution.
The United States have been expanding their borders beyond that with which they started. This is a difficult thing to gauge with the United States because since the very beginning of our history, the United States have been a conquering nation, an expanding empire. Imperialism is practice by which powerful nations or people seek to expand and maintain control or influence over weaker nations or peoples. Throughout the years there have been many instances where the Americans have taken over other people countries; almost every time we go into we have taken over a new piece of land. The Americas first taste of imperialism came about five hundred years ago when Columbus came to America. We fought the pleasant inhabitants and then took over their land making them slaves. Americans over the years have been known to become almost selfish, no matter how much we have we will never be happy until we control the free world. The United States today does not seem interested in direct territorial control of the rest of the world, in contrast to the classic stage of