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A 3 page paper detailing five specific reasons that the US began to abandon its isolationists policies with the beginning of the Spanish American war. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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her eventual entry into World War I. In reality, however, we had begun to move away from that ideology even as early as the Spanish American war. Never-the-less,
isolationism was an important precept in those earlier times. The Spanish American War, however, marked a turning point in our isolationist philosophy. We moved away from isolationism for
five specific reasons. These were: 1. because of our desire to exclude European powers from the Americas. This meant that we had to involve ourselves in affairs that
were technically outside our borders. 2. Our quest for natural resources coupled with 3. our need to insure trade with other areas to present two more reasons
that we should abandon isolationism. Next, we came to the recognition that 4. peaceful negotiations were not insurance that US desire would be fulfilled. Our fifth and
final reason for moving away from isolationism, of course, was the fact that 5. Spain directly attacked one of our ships that had been deployed to Cuba to protect
U.S. interests there. Our founding fathers established our country for the express purpose of being independent from outside intervention. This establishment was
political but it was greatly facilitated by geography. Indeed, the primary reason that we originally clung to our philosophy of isolationism so tightly was because we were so geographically
isolated from the rest of the world. Americans were concerned only with preserving the sanctity of their own borders and paid little attention to areas outside those borders.
With the Monroe Doctrine of 1824 we had told the world that the U.S. did not intend to venture out of her boundaries to take on altercations that the nation
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