Early American Foreign Policy

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. …