The United States foreign policy during 1865 to 1910 was determined less by economic than by strategic, moral, and political interests as shown in the Civil War, the Spanish-American war concerning Cuba, and the immoral darkness of yellow journalism. The Civil War made America vulnerable, having the American foreign policy based on a way to protect America from outside intruders. The Spanish-American War made United States foreign policy based on political interests, for as America was expanding in the Pacific, the war re-established the terms of the Monroe Doctrine. Yellow journalism was a way for the American newsstands to gain money in a dishonest way, giving the American people anger to push government to get involved in the war. …
