Key Points

The US in the Caribbean was due to their main objectives such as trade and investmentsdefense expansionism and their main idealogy.

Factors resulting in the involvement of the US in the Caribbean were because of trade routes, imperialism and national security.

The US invaded Puerto Rico in 1898, Cuba in 1915 and Panama in 1903

Building these territories the US would be able to make profits for themselves

The Caribbean had a vast potential market which the US could invest in.

Manifest Destiny was the belief that the US held that they were destined by God to own the entire Western Hemisphere.

USs withdrawal led social and economic effects