U.S. Policies toward Latin America Throughout the years, Latin America has been a region of the world extremely important to United States foreign policy. Due to its close proximity to the United States, many events that occur in Latin America directly influence the United States everyday li...
The American spirit of "Manifest Destiny" which had remained unbroken since the founding of the Republic reached one of its peaks at the end of the nineteenth century. The years following the Civil War had seen a steady preparation for this. In 1867, for example, William H. Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, purchased Alaska from Russia. His successors used the new American foothold in the North to declare that the Bering Sea was to be an area in which American authority was absolute. ...
