The imperialists were all for it, thinking that it would help with the American market and the depressed economy from the Panic of 1893. The anti-imperialists argued that it went against our American democracy and was harmful to the territories we were trying to acquire.
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There was great wealth in the South, but it was primarily tied up in the slave economy. In 1860, the economic value of slaves in the United States exceeded the invested value of all of the nation's railroads, factories, and banks combined. On the eve of the Civil War, cotton prices were at an all-time high.
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The navajo celebrates a baby's first laugh.