1. American Foreign Policy Doctrines and Reality

2. I. The American Revolution
“All men are created equal”
Invasion Canada
Dispossession Indians

3. II. Early Republic Northwest Ordinance: “empire of liberty”
G. Washington (Farewell Address, 1796):
“The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible… Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.”
Isolationism

4. Empire of Liberty?
Haiti: 1798 slave insurrection US refuses recognition, undermines
Indian Removal

5. III. Monroe Doctrine
1823: “the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain are henceforth not to be considered for future colonization by any European powers…”
“…we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.”

6. 1846: Mexican-American War
1836: annex Texas
1844: 54’40” or fight!
1846: Mexican-American War
Fabricated cause

7. IV. Roosevelt Corollary
“Big Stick” in Panama
1904-5: “international police power”
“Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, require intervention by some civilized nation…”
Nicaragua, Haiti, Dominican Republic

8. V. Dollar and Moral Diplomacy
Taft: military hegemony
Wilson: idealism