Isolationism is defined in the dictionary as a national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries. It was also The United States main policy towards the end of the 19th century. Despite not having relations with other countries the time was right for the U.S. to break isolationism and become a world power because of a few political and economic events. The first major aspect that allowed the U.S. …showed first 75 words of 1327 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1327 total…lost that war many different things could of happened. Maybe the Spanish would have attacked the continental U.S. The U.S. definitely wouldn’t have had control over the Philippines or Guam so trade would have slowed. Hawaii would probably not be a state either. It seems that at this time in history everything was going right for the U.S. and that America’s time had come to emerge as a world power.