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Occupation: Writer, lecturer

Position on Imperialism: Before 1899 he was a stead fast imperialist. He believed that we were trying to free the Philippines and start a brand new republic not subjugate it’s people. From this point on he was strongly anti imperialistic. He was the vice president of the American Anti-Imperialistic League and wrote in political pamphlets on their behalf.

Why Was Mark Twain Interested in Imperialism?
 * Was a News Journalist
 * Used his power to inform the public to cause outcry against the Belgian King Leopold
 * Supported American Imperialism of the Philippines
 * Became out raged when America Forced Philippines into complying

Maxwell Geismar, ed., Mark Twain and the Three Rs: Race, Religion, Revolution and Related  Matters (Indianapolis: Bobs-Merrill, 1973), p.159

"Quotes about the United States of America, Sayings about the U.S.A.." The Quote Garden - Quotes, Sayings, Quotations, Verses. http://www.quotegarden.com/america.html (accessed January 26, 2012).

<span style="background-color: #efefef; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Mark Twain - Wikipedia, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain#cite_ref-64 (accessed February 7, 2012).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Andrew Jay Hoffman, Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (New <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">York: William Morrow, 1997), cited in Helen Scott's "The Mark Twain they didn't teach us about in school" (2000) inInternational Socialist Review 10, Winter 2000, pp.61–65