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Foreign Policy Leading to War of 1812
Great Britain Was encouraging the Native Americans to cause problems to the United States. After that, the U.S. declared war with Great Britain thinking they take over Canada too. The Foreign Policy decision was a reckless/unrealistic sense of foreign policy. President James Madison was the one who declared war on Great Britain. -
Monroe Doctrine as a Foreign Policy
The United States and European countries (Britain and Spain)
The Americas were no longer open to colonization. Britain encouraged the US to close the Western Hemisphere because the price of goods were cheaper than when Spain was in control.
The United States wanted to be the top dog in the western hemisphere. Reckless Foreign Policy. James Monroe view was would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
American Justifications for the Mexican War
The U.S. and Mexico
The U.S. sent people to live in Mexico. Those people took that land from Mexico. The US offered to buy the land from Mexico. Mexico denied the offer and declared war against the US.
The US was really trying to expand its territory. Which was
Expansionistic. James K. Polk just wanted more land but he had to steal it. -
Lincoln's Approach to Trent Affair
During the civil war, the southern states asked Great Britain for help in defeating the northern states. The British sent the ship Trent to pick up two representatives from the southern states to negotiate terms. Pres Lincoln sent a ship to intercept the Trent. Pres Lincoln decided that war with Britain was not in our best interest.
The US was already engaged in a civil war Not the best time to go to war with Britain. Clear sense of National Limitation Lincoln's view was to keep the peace. -
The Decision to Annex Hawaii
The US and the native people of Hawaii. The US had established business in Hawaii and wanted to make that business stronger by making Hawaii a part of the US. The native people of Hawaii were against becoming a part of the US. The US eventually took Hawaii by force making it a territory of the US. The issue was over the core values that we used to establish our country. One side said we were not giving those people liberty and equality while the other side argued that our values have changed. -
Spanish American War
between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
Panama Canal
President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal—a trans-isthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. (Taken over by the U.S.) -
World War 1
a Serbian-nationalist terrorist group called the Black Hand sent groups to assassinate the Archduke. Many Americans were not in favor of the U.S. entering the war and wanted to remain neutral.
