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At the turn of the century, several nations were competing for internal empires. After the Spanish-American War, the United States government sought to extend and solidify its influence in the Western hemisphere. Analyze the effects of American foreign policy in Latin America in the period 1899 to 1917.

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AP US History question:

At the turn of the century, several nations were competing for internal empires. After the Spanish-American War, the United States government sought to extend and solidify its influence in the Western hemisphere. Analyze the effects of American foreign policy in Latin America in the period 1899 to 1917.

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America's foreign policy in Latin America during this time was based largely on moral issues, in that the US viewed it as a moral responsibility to stop dictators from rising in war-torn and impoverished Latin American countries.