After the Civil War Americans got busy expanding internally. With the frontier to conquer and virtually unlimited resources, they had little reason to look elsewhere. Americans generally had a high level of disdain for Europe, although wealthy Americans were often educated there and respected European cultural achievements in art, music and literature. Americans also felt secure from external threat because of their geographic isolation between two oceans, which gave them a sense of invulnerability. Until very late in the 19th century Americans remained essentially indifferent to foreign policy and world affairs.
What interests America did have overseas were generally focused in the Pacific and the Caribbean, where trade, transportation and communication issues commanded attention. To the extent that Americans wanted to extend their influence overseas they had two primary goals: pursue favorable trade agreements and alignments and foster the spread of Christian and democratic ideals as they understood them. The isolationism that seemed to work for America began to change late in the century for a variety of reasons. First, the industrial revolution had created challenges that required a broad reassessment of economic policies and conduct. The production of greater quantities of goods, the need for additional sources of raw materials and greater markets-in general the expansive nature of capitalism-all called for Americans to begin to look outward.
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America had always been driven by the idea of "manifest destiny," which was at first the idea that the U.S. was to expand over the whole continent of North America, "from the Isthmus of Panama to the Arctic Circle." While Canada and Mexico seemed impervious to further expansion by Americans, at least there had been the rest of the mainland to fill up. With the ending of the frontier and the completion of the settlement of the West the impulse to further expansion spilled out over America's borders.</span>
<span>The English economy improved and religious and political conflicts diminished. </span>
Answer:d. the defeat of the Persians in 480 BCE.
Explanation:The Early Classical period, also called the Period of Transition, lasted from c. 480-450 BCE. [1] It was the transitional period between the Archaic period and the High Classical period. Throughout the Classical period, the Greeks were interested in humanism, rationalism, and idealism.
Battle of Thermopylae, (480 bce), battle in central Greece at the mountain pass of Thermopylae during the Persian Wars. The Greek forces, mostly Spartan, were led by Leonidas. ... Sending the main army in retreat, Leonidas and a small contingent remained behind to resist the advance and were defeated.
Answer:
The correct answer is Enlightenment.
Explanation:
This is correct answer because Enlightenment was the movement of the 18th Century, that started in France that focused on the usage of reason and science. Not only that it was cultural, but also scientific movement.
The other answers are wrong because:
Protestant Reformation is wrong because it was a process of the reformation inside the Catholic Church.
Great Awakening was also religious movement of the 18th Century on the soil of America.
Alan Parson Project was u musical project and a rock band
I am not 100% sure but I believe the answer is A
