The Anti-imperialist league formed to fight U.S. annexation of the Philippines, citing a variety of reasons ranging from the economic to the legal to the racial to the moral. It included among its members such notables as Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, William James, David Starr Jordan, and Samuel Gompers with George S. Boutwell, former secretary of the Treasury and Massachusetts, as its president. Following the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the league began to decline and eventually disappeared.
<span>It s true that the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave President Johnson the power to expand U.S. involvement in Vietnam. During the time that the resolution was passed the president gained an unlimited power to oppose any communist aggression in Southeast Asian Countries, as it expnad its military role in the Cold War battlefield in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.</span>
I think the Victorians created astonishing innovation and change. This age was one of paradox and power.
