The correct answer is: "Non-intervention policy"
George Washington was adressing the issue on whether it was benefitial or not to establish alliances with foreign countries. Thomas Jefferson did it later as well, exactly in the same line as Washington, as it can be seen in this quotation: <em>"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none."</em>
They exemplified like this the national point of view which had set the way of proceeding at the time. It was maintained from 1789 until the end of WWII. The only exception was the relationship of the US with Panama.
But after WWII the situation became the opposite, the US allied with half of the world and included them as part of the capitalist block, to confront the URSS and the communist system.
In philosophy, Chinese Buddhism had diminished its influence, but maintained its relationship with the arts and the charity of the monasteries. Buddhism had a profound influence on the threatened neo-Confucianism, led by Cheng Yi (1033-1107) and Zhu Xi (1130-1200). Mayahana Buddhism influenced Fan Zhongyan and Wang Anshi through its concept of ethical universalism, while Buddhist metaphysics had a profound impact on Cheng Yi's pre-neo-Confucian doctrine. In turn, the philosophical work of Chen Yi It influenced Zhu Xi. Although his writings were not accepted by his contemporaries, Zhu's commentaries and emphasis on the Confucian classics of the Four Books as an introductory corpus to the teaching of Confucius formed the basis of neo-Confucian doctrine. Around the year 1241, under the patronage of Emperor Lizong, the Four Books of Zhu Xi and their commentaries on them became the standard requirements of the study for students attempting to pass civil service examinations. The countries located east of Japan and Korea also adopted the teachings of Zhu Xi, known as Shushigaku (朱子学, Zhu Xi School) in Japan, and in Korea as Jujahak (주자학).
The decision wasn't good because they weren't correctly calculating
While we can name many characters that were important in the process of annexing Texas to the United States, the name that stands out is Samuel Houston.
When the US Congress voted for the annexation of Texas at the end of February 1845, Mexico suspended its diplomatic relations with the US Union, warning that the annexation of Texas would be considered an act of war.
In Texas two political groups would be formed: a small portion, partisan of Texas independence, whose most important representatives were Anson Jones and Ashbel Smith; The other, more numerous and popular, was headed by Samuel Houston and was in favor of annexation to the United States.
There are two options that fits to be correct. But I guess you need only one. So my answer is <span>a. to place the US Army and Navy in one executive department.</span>