Jackson Administrations - Foreign Issues
Foreign Issues
The United States, one of the world's youngest nations in the early nineteenth century, had yet to spread its wings in terms of foreign affairs. As a nation created through revolution, it had remained relatively isolated and opposed to meddling in the affairs of other countries as well as to the intrusion of foreigners into its own territory. But the fact remained that as a young nation situated on the opposite side of the globe from Europe, Africa, and Asia, the United States had much work to do in establishing relations with the rest of the world. As the European colonial powers continued to battle for influence in North and South America, the United States took the position that it was proper for them to keep these nations from encroaching into their sphere of influence.
As a former general and frontiersman, President Jackson could not claim much of a background in foreign diplomacy. This was in contrast to...
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