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Expansionist   /ɪkspˈænʃənɪst/  /ɪkspˈæntʃənɪst/   Listen
Expansionist

adjective
1.
Of or involving or guided by expansionism.






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"Expansionist" Quotes from Famous Books



... public thought from the old political issues arising out of the war. Foreign relations, too, began to take on a new interest. The Alabama claims controversy with England continued to hold the public attention until finally settled by the Geneva Arbitration in 1872. President Grant, as much of an expansionist as Seward, for two years (1869-71) tried to secure Santo Domingo or a part of it for an American naval base in the West Indies. But the United States had race problems enough already and the Senate, led by Sumner, refused ...
— The Sequel of Appomattox - A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States, Volume 32 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Walter Lynwood Fleming

... news of these battles and victories had aroused the expansionist instincts of the people of the United States, or at least of the articulate classes, to the point of demanding the annexation of the whole of Mexico. Sober newspapers, like the New York Evening Post, officers of the navy and the army, like Commodore ...
— Expansion and Conflict • William E. Dodd



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