What event sparked us interest in expanding markets into latin america and asia in the 1890s?

Around 1876, the United States had built a great exporting empire. There was a small reversal following 1888 which caused a fear that the United States was losing their ground in the foreign markets. This helped drive the expansionist drive of the 1890s when the United States expanded their markets into Latin America and Asia.

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