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The Louisiana Purchase eventually doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically

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America's annexation of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power

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The Panama Canal was built to lower the distance, cost, and time it took for ships to carry cargo between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.

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Guam is an unincorporated territory of the United States governed under the Organic Act of Guam, passed by the U.S. Congress.The only reason America annexed Guam all those years ago was because the U.S. was at war with Spain.