Foreign Policy in the Progressive Era

Foreign Policy in the Progressive Era

Multiple Choice

What is foreign policy?

• a country’s relations with other nations
• international trade policy
• sending diplomats to global conferences
• protection of overseas interests

Poll

Choose the statement you most agree with.

• The US should stay out of foreign affairs so we are not drawn into their problems.

• The US should try and take over new territory, it will give us new sources of resources and new markets to sell to.

• The US should intervene in other countries if it would be good for us economically or if they need help or if it will help. Our way of doing things is the best way.

Multiple Choice

Foreign policy goals are to protect the interests of home nation, for example 1) provide security, 2) create prosperity, 3) make the world a better place.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Policy of not getting involved in foreign affairs?

• Isolationism
• Appeasement
• Containment
• Imperialism

Isolationism

The US has a long history of being isolationist.

Examples:

Washington's Farewell Address

Monroe Doctrine

Geography has played a part in how and why the US has been isolationist.

Imperialism

The belief that a country should expand.

Reasons:

1. Desire for new sources of natural resources

2.Desire for new markets to sell to

3. National Defense to have a buffer zone between other nations

Examples of Us Imperialism on the North American Continent:

Manifest Destiny! The reason for expansion across North America

Manifest Destiny!

Examples of US Imperialism on the North American Continent:

*Indian Removal Act

*Mexican American War

*Oregon Treaty

Interventionism

Belief that a country should intervene politically or economically to help or change another country. You will be learning about an instance of interventionism in your reading today.

Social Darwinism

Rationalization and justification for Imperialism and interventionism:

Many whites in the US believed that it was only natural that the US exercise control over "less fit", "less civilized", or "inferior" groups of people.

Multiple Choice

Josiah Strong, a Christian missionary, stated in 1885, "It seems to me that God, with infinite wisdom and skill, is training the Anglo-Saxon race for an hour sure to come in the world's future... Then this race of unequalled energy... will spread itself over the earth." This is an example of what reason for expansion?

• manifest destiny

• Social Darwinism

• economic negotiations

• denouncment of political and military power

Multiple Choice

Before the US expanded its territory overseas, Americans felt obligated to take lands from Native Americans because of which reason?

• manifest destiny

• to protect the natives from disease

• to provide them with a better location

• to increase the native people's political and military power

Multiple Choice

When the US first became a nation, which foreign policy stance did it practice?

• isolationism
• collective security
• interventionism
• imperialism

Multiple Choice

Westward Expansion is an example of....

• Isolationism

• Neutrality

• Imperialism

• Interventionism

Multiple Choice

Acquiring lands by conquering weaker people or nations

• Imperialism

• Interventionism

• Neutrality

• Internationalism

Multiple Choice

When a country gets involved in a conflict in order to protect their interests (allies, resources)

• Isolationism

• Imperialism

• Interventionism

• Neutrality