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By the Mid 1890s a shift had taken place in American attitudes toward expansion that was sparked partly by a European scramble for empire.
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With the help of John Quincy Adams in December of 1823 Monroe delivered a message to congress and the rest of the world that set forth the following principles which would later become known as the Monroe Doctrine.
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In 1867, the US purchased Alaska from Russia from $72 million and occupied the Midway Islands in the Pacific.
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Between 1870 and 1900 the European powers seized 10 million square miles of territory in Africa and Asia a filth of the worlds land mass.
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During the late 1880s, American foreign policy makers began to display a new assertiveness.
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The US came close to declaring war against Germany over Samoa in 1889, against chile in 1891 over the treatment of US sailors and against Britain in 1895, over a territorial dispute between Venezuela and Britian.
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By the 1890s, American economy was increasing dependent on foreign trade.
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The main stream Protestant religious groups established religion missions in Africa And Asia including 500 missions in china by 1890.
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From the civil war until the 1890s, most Americans had little interest in territorial expansion. William Seward under Lincoln and Johnson did envision American expansion into Alaska, Canada, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Greenland, Hawaii, and other islands.
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American involvement in the overthrow of Hawaii’s monarchy in 1893 precipitated a momentous debate over the United States global role.
