Did Americans support overseas expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries primarily because they believed the United States should spread its core values of freedom, individualism, democracy, and morality to “less-enlightened” peoples in Latin Am

Did Americans support overseas expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries primarily because they believed the United States should spread its core values of freedom, individualism, democracy, and morality to “less-enlightened” peoples in Latin America and East Asia? Why or why not?