Economics Was A Big Factor To Overseas Expansion

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After the Civil War, the United States began to thrive in success and an unnecessary urge to expand overseas spread amongst most Americans. Because of the second Industrial Revolution, the domestic economic prosperity gave the United States the needless desire and compulsion to push for aggressive foreign policy. Since manufacturers spent more money building more advanced, productive factories, they often produced more products than they could sell. This lead to dependence of overseas sales, to keep their business going. For Imperialistic advocates, economics was a big factor to overseas expansion, but was undoubtedly avoidable. Militarily, the United States was convinced they needed naval ports in the Pacific because they found competition