Humanitarism

In the years that America has been around, it has helped millions of people all over the world in numerous countries. America has help Europe in WWII when it needed help when the Nazi's expanded their empire. America has helped the South Vietnamese when they where trying to fight off communism, the U.S. help liberate Kuwait when it was being occupied. So America has a lot of Humanitarist views over the years that it has been around, and has not changed once since it was founded.
American Humanitarianism sympathized with the Cubans because the nation felt bad for them. There was another reason U.S. Citizens sympathized with the Cubans. The Spanish general named Weyler (or called the Butcher) killed, and mistreated the Cuban people. He treated the Cubans with unusual cruelty and hatred, so the U.S. went in to save Cuba from such a horrible person. America couldn't leave them on their own, to fight for themselves. The American people would have pressured the U.S. government to go save them, that it would be the right thing to do. The government would have to save them if they didn't want the people of America get angry at them.
Another reason that we are Humanitarianism is that we said we would help liberate Cuba but leave in 5 years once we liberate it. What empire over time and history has occupied a country but promised to leave in 5 years. You don't say that if you are preparing to take over the country that your going to leave. If we are Imperialist then we would have just marched in and have kept it for our self's. You can see now that we do not own Cuba in anyway.
If the nation didn't care about them then America wouldn't have sent a courtesy call to see if they where ok. McKinley said that he would not let them fend for themselves, and have Spain take back Cuba. America didn't stop the Spanish because we wanted Cuba for ourselves, America did it because the U.S. citizens wanted to do the right thing and help them. When the nation did stop Spain America didn't take advantage of the Cubans and took their land for ourselves.
So America is more Humanitarianism than Imperialism. Because the U.S. has helped the Cubans not take them over, and America has sympathized with Cuba. Our nation Liberated them from a General named Weyler or also called the butcher. America saved the Cubans from Spain's occupation and take over of Cuba. America has had the best intrest in the countrys we have helped over the years, America has never invaded another country to take it over in the history of the U.S. If America was Imperialist then the U.S. wouldn't care in the least in any of thoughs other country's we helped.