Freedom and liberty make market economies possible
Generally speaking, while Alexander Hamilton supported merchants, Thomas Jefferson was more sympathetic toward the needs of "farmers", since Jefferson's view of the US was highly agrarian.
Nationalism and imperialism were major factors to the world war 1. that lead to some conflicts between nations. imperialism also contributed to start world war 1 because the European nations attacking and conquering different areas of Africa and Euro nations attacking other Euro nations for African Territory.
Because LBJ, under the Tolkien Resolution, was given basically infinite power to protect U.S interests in Vietnam. Thus, President Johnson continued to "escalate", or build up American forces, weapons, and intervention in Vietnam. Now, somewhat opposite of this would be "Vietnamization" under Nixon, which was the gradual withdrawal of American troops but a continuation of supplies in order to aid South Vietnam from the Vietcong.