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A 4 page discussion of the evolution of American imperialist thought. The author contends that by the beginning of the twentieth century U.S. policy had evolved from isolationsist to imperialistic. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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dont often think of their country as imperialistic. We tend to remember the attitudes of our founding fathers and even the factors that inspired the original colonists to migrate
to the Americas. In her earliest history as an independent country the U.S. closely tended its isolationist policies. She preferred to remain aloof from the rest of the
world both in respect to attempts at outside intervention into the affairs of this country and in respect to our intervention in the affairs of other countries. That policy
was, in fact, formalized in 1824 with the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine encapsulated a foreign policy authored primarily by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams which sought to
exclude European powers from the Americas. In effect, however, the Monroe Doctrine would favor the British and they in turn enforced the doctrines language against the Spanish.
The power of the British navy and our geographic isolation itself kept the new nation largely impervious to outsiders. The Monroe Doctrine also served to clarify the fact that
the U.S. did not intend to venture out of her boundaries to take on altercations that the nation did not feel affected it. Interestingly, however, this chapter in our
international policies was soon to come to an end. Very quickly, in fact, the U.S.s isolationist policies would evolve towards imperialistic policies.
Discussion Our first imperialist act was the venture outside our existing borders in pursuit of
a U.S. title to Texas, a vast region which ultimately would be divided into the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. Subsequently, the Venezuelan border would
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