Prevent the incalculable loss of life it would take to invade mainland japan.
Answer:
People where I was living told me they didn’t even know about it. No, I wasn’t alive during the Spanish American War, but had great-grandparents, uncles and aunts who were. In that time period, there was no radio, television or internet. Newspapers and magazines were luxuries. The primary mail was the occasional delivery of the Sears “wish book.” So the war had come and gone before most people in the US even knew it existed. It was primarily a war for, by and of the elites on the East and West Coast.
Explanation:
<span>There were few or no rules or conditions attached for people to hold office under the spoils system. This was the system in which any political party that wins the election can give government jobs to its supporters or relatives or friends and relatives for their support. This system did not look for the quality of the person holding the post.</span>
It is called isolationism. We stayed out other peoples business because we were a new country. We now dominate the entire west.