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fandomsecrets2013-06-11 06:57 pm
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[ SECRET POST #2352 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2352 ⌋
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That's an overly precise (to the point of being wrong) definition of the word "empire." Let's go with Webster's New Collegiate instead, which defines empire as "a group of nations or states under a single sovereign power."
America has never been an empire
Current U.S.-controlled territories: Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico
An incomplete list of previous U.S.-controlled territories:
Philippines (1898-1946)
Hawaii (1898-1959)
Federated States of Micronesia (1947-1986)
Marshall Islands (1947-1986)
Palau (1947-1994)
Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa (1952-1972)
The U.S.A.'s acquisition of the Philippines in the Treaty of Paris--and its success at holding the territory in spite of the failed revolution that was the Philippine-American War--is particularly notable because it marks the point at which the U.S.A. came to be regarded as an empire by its own citizens and by the other imperial powers.
Really, though, the U.S.A. has been a de facto empire almost since its inception. American expansion westward across the continent was at its heart imperial expansion, annexing land previously under the control of American Indians. When these territories were incorporated into the U.S.A. as states, the white colonists were granted full and equal citizenship; the American Indians who lived there and whose land it had originally been were not.