US Foreign Policy (1890-1914)

The United States’ approach to foreign policy had not changed conceptually from the days it signed its independence. These ideas were primarily based on protecting US interests overseas and restricting foreign influences in the Americas. Once they furthered themselves politically and economically, they gained the status of being a world power and they still wanted more. They figured they had to strengthen the country industrially as they needed worldwide markets for its growing industrial and …

…America could hope to become an even prosperous country. There were other important motives guiding the US’s Foreign Policy with respect to being able to compete with other imperialistic nations as well as to advance themselves militarily. Moreover, there were also nationalistic and humanitarian motives influencing the US’s foreign policy. However, the economic benefits of foreign policy outweighed these motives and served as the country’s most prominent reason to expand its dominion.