Foreign Policy

Question 1

Isolationism

Answer 1

USA was generally detached from foreign affairs.
Believed in the Monroe Doctrine of 1823. Only got involved if US interests were at stake. (Puppet Emperor Maximilian in the 1860s)

Question 2

Expansionism

Answer 2

In 1867 USA acquired Midway Island in the West
Pacific to obtain supplies to make gunpowder. Burlingame Treaty with China to allow free movement from the USA to China and to promote Chinese immigration to build railroads. Alaska purchased from Russia in 1867. It expanded the US coastline, maintained good relations with Russia and Seward felt that the development of Alaskan harbors might provide a gateway to Northern Asia

Question 3

Why was their tensions between the USA and Britain/Canada?

Answer 3

Tensions between the USA and Britain/Canada because they supported the Confederacy in the Civil War. Britain built Confederate ships in dockyards. USA demanded compensation from Britain and wanted to ask for $2 billion. Canada became a dominion in 1867 and the USA retaliated by allowing Fenian’s into Canada and raiding. Anglo-American dispute was settled in 1872 when Britain agreed to pay $15.5 million to the USA for the damage caused by Confederate
ships