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…showed last 75 words of 953 total…S. expanded, but it did not give some countries the right to decide to become independent. The U.S. took matters into their own hands and decided the fate of its new territories. The motives were greed and power. The U.S. will be known in history as ambitious but not to a dangerous level and greedy. Power and money is the cause to expansion because our country is based on the foundation of capitalism.