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A 5 page overview of the evolution of American foreign policy between the beginning pages of our history and the end of the Cold War in the Twentieth Century. While much of the Nineteenth Century would be spent largely in isolation from the rest of the world, soon our policy of emphasizing expansionism and national defense would evolve into one in which we interacted extensively both politically and militaristically in the affairs of other nations. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Our independent spirit resulted early in American history. Its principles were indeed deeply ingrained. The Revolution was essentially fought to preserve the
independence the colonial entities had come to expect since their migration to the Americas, the Revolution was a conservative movement, one without the tremendous amount of bloodshed which had come
to be associated with revolutions, and one fought to preserve the liberties the Americans already had as colonist. The preservation of life, liberty and the right to pursue
happiness was indeed the primary goal, not the pursuit of freedom. The colonist already had freedom and intended to preserve it and they were willing to fight to do
so with their ideas if not always their physical actions. Even George Washington had admonished against the dangers of "foreign entanglements". Consequently much of the nineteenth century would
be spent largely in isolation from the rest of the world. Our role in world affairs would be one characterized by evolution, however. Soon our policy of emphasizing
expansionism and national defense would evolve into one in which we interacted extensively both politically and militaristically in the affairs of other nations.
The 1824 U.S. isolation from the rest of the world would be formalized with the Monroe Doctrine, a foreign policy authored primarily by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams which
sought to exclude European powers from the Americas (Shupp, 1999). In effect, however, the Monroe Doctrine would favor the British and they in turn enforced the doctrines language
against the Spanish (Shupp, 1999). The power of the British navy and our geographic isolation itself kept the new nation largely impervious to outsiders.
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