Identifier: americanaunivers15beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860- Scientific American, inc
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American compiling dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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reat changes wrought inour relation to the Caribbean and more particu-larly to the momentous question of dominancyin the Pacific. The ownership of Hawaii andthe Philippines (the former a direct outcomeof the war also) are elements in this naturaldestiny of the highest importance. From thispoint of view, and there is nothing facing theworld of greater import than the future ofEastern Asia, the war did much to put theUnited States in a position to meet the comingemergency. It al.so gave us a navy, an adequatearmy, and the necessary bases for action, ifaction be forced upon us. p. £. Ch-i^dwick, Rear-Admiral, United States Navy. 43. United States — Territorial Expansion ofthe. The territorial expansion of the UnitedStates dates from the peace treaty of 1783, thevery treaty by which their independence wasrecognized and their boundaries named. Therehad been much uncertainty about the boundariesof the colonies for a considerable period priorto the War of the Revolution, and especially so
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^ c UNITED STATES —TERRITORIAL EXPANSION »n years immediately preceding the Declarationof Independence. The early grants to the col-onies were made to the Sonth Sea, by whichwas meant the Pacitic Ocean, though it was notthen supposed that the continent was more than afew hundred miles wide. Gradually, however, theFrench moved up the Saint Lawrence and downthe Mississippi Valley, establishing their claimto the great central area, and the Spanish grad-ually extended their claims northward at theextreme west, so that the claims of the coloniesthat their territory extended to the Pacificgradually dwindled, in view of the fact that themother country made no attempt to preventthese encroachments on the west. The increas-ing claims of the French in the MississippiValley and finally their claims to the OhioValley led to hostilities between the Englishand the French colonists and they were sup-ported by their respective governments. In1/53, the French having begun the estalilishmentof a mil

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