The fact that US Senate voted for the treaty proves that the majority of Americans supported the decision to annex the Philippines. “The United States decided that it would annex.” There are two American who opposed the annexation and it was Mark Twain and Andrew Carnige.
manage the colonial troops fighting the Revolutionary War
Technically yes, America was a land of opportunity for indentured servants, since many of them had slightly better conditions after arriving in America than they had back home, but this is of course relative.
The nickname for U.S. soldiers in WW1 was known as "doughboys". There are many explanations for the nickname for the soldiers but the most common was that their uniforms would be coated with dust, so that they looked like they were made out of dough, or perhaps of adobe.