At one time, William McKinley manifested "Exhibitions are the timekeepers of progress", inspiring America that the flow of work will be presented gracefully. By reaching the years of massive expansion, America had grown enormously in terms of goods and services. In the late 1890s, President McKinley urged Americans to make America the most powerful nation in the entire world. In preparing for a strong nation, the Spanish-American War had encompassed the gains made due to tensions between Spain and the United States. The Americans achieved their victories and promoted the Treaty of Paris which had control over several foreign countries. After the war, the United States focused on protecting its nation. America's advancement of new establishments will bring wonderful benefits and relations with foreign countries. The rise of imperialism in the late 1890s influenced the United States to seize the Philippines, which potentially pushed America to perfect itself and transform a well-structured country by establishing trade, settling territories for resources, and expanding foreign markets. Striving to expand, America believed that foreign trade will greatly resolve the panic of 1983 which caused the worst and most disastrous economic depression due to corporate and banking corruption. The United States became involved in the sugar industries of Hawaii, which had become part of the American territory. The Hawaiian sugar industry was effectively ramping up their plantations and sugar was being sent to America by tax free (La Croix). Free from taxation, the United States can preserve the economy for society which has improved greatly. To their advantage, the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 gave access to the Hawaiian sugar industry in the midst of seeking resources and expanding foreign markets. Now the United States possesses great powers and has turned out to be one of the greatest countries of all. Works Cited Bhattacharyya, Madhurjya. Dollar diplomacy. Buzzle Articles. Network. April 13, 2010.Israel, Jerry. Progressivism and the Open Door: America and China, 1905-1921. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971. La Croix, Sumner J. and James Roumasset. "The Evolution of Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii." Journal of Economic History 50 (1990): 829-852. Marchand, Roland. The debate on the Philippines. UC Davis, 2001.Moreno, Steven. US imperialism at the end of the century. Oakland High School Books. CA: Oakland. 2009.