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JOHN ADAMS- 1780 “OUR BUSINESS WITH THEM, AND THEIRS WITH US IS COMMERCE, NOT POLITICS, MUCH LESS WAR”
GEORGE WASHINGTON, FAREWELL ADDRESS (1796) “IT IS OUR TRUE POLICY TO STEER CLEAR OF PERMANENT ALLIANCES WITH ANY PORTION OF THE FOREIGN WORLD…” HAS OUR SUBSEQUENT FOREIGN POLICY STAYED IN ALIGNMENT WITH VISIONS OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS?
IMPERIALISM V. ISOLATIONISM IMPERIALISM-THE POLICY OF EXTENDING A NATION’S AUTHORITY BY ACQUISITION OF TERRITORY OR BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE OVER OTHER NATIONS ISOLATIONISM- A NATIONAL POLICY OF ABSTAINING FROM ECONOMIC OR POLITICAL ENTANGLEMENTS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES
MANIFEST DESTINY OUR RIGHT, DUTY TO EXPAND (AS ORDAINED BY GOD) AMERICA INCREASINGLY ENTWINED WITH WORLD ECONOMY ALFRED THAYER MAHAN THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY, 1660-1783 (1890) NATIONAL GREATNESS AND PROSPERITY STEMMED FROM MARITIME POWER ALASKA – ACQUIRED 1867 “SEWARD’S FOLLY” SAMOA SETTLED IN 1889 HAWAII ACQUIRED BY 1898
MANIFEST DESTINY
ALFRED THAYER MAHAN MAHAN HALL-US NAVAL ACADEMY
US EXPANSION IN PACIFIC 1867-1899