The first thing we must define the terminologies. The first term to be addressed is America's founding principles. The 5 founding principles of the United States is equality, rights, liberty, opportunity, and democracy. The second term to be addressed is the definition of imperialism, which is the extension of a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is important to note is that America's principles were relegated only to white, particularly land-owning, males for much of her early history. As such, the principles were viewed as unnecessary to be extended to those who fail to embody the idealized American persona. While it may not seem to relegated all people groups into categorizes that deem them as sub-human or uncharacteristic of the ideal human, it does in fact give the level of prestige and superiority to the product of idealism.
This is reflected in the reasoning of why the United States pursued the imperialistic behavior. In idealizing firstly the United States, and then secondly the system of beliefs and customs that was followed by the majority of the United States, she seeked to bring such values to other countries, though not without seeking benefits from said country. Ideology can be seen as a major export for any country, whether it is through immigration, gathered through the market of information, or forcefully through integration of groups into the conquering country. However, as pointed out, those who are conquered by the United States and taken into the U.S. system, does not meet the requirement of the American persona. On top of that, many groups failed to leave all customs from their respective areas behind, and fail to integrate completely into what is thought of as the American ideal. Therefore, those who failed to completely integrate (whether of their own volition or simply not being able to) was seen as beneath the ideal vision.
It is noteworthy, therefore, on which front you wish to see U.S. Imperialism. If viewed from today's point of view, the U.S. imperialism betrays not only America's founding principles, in rejecting the equality of, by a word-for-word definition, all mankind, but also denying liberty from those who were forced under America's rule, and failed to be given the opportunity to leave.
However, as stated above, while in today's definition of the founding principles, it does, in fact, betray how we define America's founding principles, however historically, it comes in line with the ideals of what was believed in that era.
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