True Or False?

Question

The fact that through much of its history the United States has had many opportunities for economic expansion at home helped to make a policy of avoiding entangling alliances possible?

Answer 1

TRuedfdfgh.........................ghdfgh.....................................dfghdfgh................................................................dfgdfhghdfghghdfghdfghd....................................................gh................................................................................................................................................FALSE

Answer 2

True through the nineteenth century. But already by the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century the US was feeling the need for a type of capitolistic imperialism to allow it to continue expanding its markets and keep pace with Western European powers.

PS. It's also only true if you consider "at home" as North America. In order to keep expanding economically throughout the nineteenth centure the US had to find pretexts to break treaties with North American Tribes in order to have access to resources on their lands. It also had to find equally flimsy pretexts for war with Mexico, thereby gaining all of the South West and California. The concept of Manifest Destiny kept the US busy throughout the nineteenth century trying to gain control of a portion of North American that would run from the East Coast to the West Coast. Once President Polk had accomplished that goal in the 1840s, it would only be sixty more years before the US had to go looking for fresh resources and fresh markets.

Answer 3

True.

Answer 4

True.