Today we are starting Chapter 10 blog discussions.Why did the US staty isolationist until the late 1800's? Trying to stay out of other countries problems.1. We wanted to avoid foreign wars.2. We had a weak army and navy3. We had to build up the US first-industry-government-internal improvements4. Slavery issue and Civil War reconstrustion5. the two oceans kept us geographically isolated-lack of technology6. had "the west" to settle7. vast natural resources in US8. followed president Washington's advice.--stay out of foreign wars and alliances.Chapter 10US taking Hawaii-Hawaii was important to the US. We first got involved in Hawaii because of missionaries reasons to christianize and sugar cane plantations. Before we moved there it was mostly immigrants living in Hawaii. White American people controlled all the land of Hawaii. The American plantation owners gave voting right only to people who owned land. If they didnt have land they couldnt vote.
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