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explain how US involvement in the Spanish American war represented a shift from isolationism to intervention

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The United States intervened between Spain and its colonies and was able to take control of those territories from the Spanish. The Spanish-American War established the United States as a real world power on the international stage.

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The main way in which the US involvement in the spanish american war represented a shift from isolationism to intervention is that this was the first time the united states had really committed troops and resources to a war that had seemingly no effect on the expansion of US borders. It was more done out of altruism 
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