Howard Zinn A People's History Chapter 12 Summary

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Chapter 12 of Howard Zinn's "A People's History" refer to to the expansion of the United States and foreign relations between the United States and other countries, mainly Cuba and the Phillipines, during the 1880s and 1890s.
- Zinn started the chapter off by telling about how President Roosevelt welcomed the possibility of war as an opportunity for expansion of the United States.
- Expansionism became generally popular, especially among the wealthy upper class, because people believed that American markets overseas would increase the amount of consumptions made and prevent economic crisis due to under consumption.
-The U.S. had a great economic interest in Cuba and got involved in it's revolution against Spain in 1898 for multiple reasons.
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