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6: Expansionism and Imperialism
I. Where We are
Removal of the Native Americans
The strategy
The Indian Removal Act
II. Broad and Narrow Defititions of the National
Interest
A. Narrow Definition: Conservative Isolationists
Four Points common to Isolationism, both conservative and liberal: protect
American industry, avoid entanglements with European powers, oppose colonialism,
annex territory
What is a Broad definition of the National Interest for a conservative
realist?
III. What determines actual foreign policy outcomes?
IV. From Expansion to Imperialism: The 1898 War
with Spain
A. Background Events
1. Depression
2. Frontier Thesis
3. European Imperial Surge
4. Social Darwinism
5. Steam Age
6. Rise in American Power
B. The Revolution in Cuba
C. Aftermath
D. Explanations
1. Power of economic interestsi
2. Public opinion and the media
a. Philanthropy and Protestantism
b. Yellow journalism
3. Security
4. Presidential advisers: “the group.”
E. Conclusions:
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