- Define “isolationism” in your own words
- Explain why, for the most part, America adopted an isolationist foreign policy after the Revolutionary War.
- Explain the reasons suggested in the article for the U.S. abandoning policies of isolationism.
- Was colonialism different from Manifest Destiny, or just a new phase of it? Explain.
- Do you think it was possible for the United States to have maintained an isolationist policy towards the world? Why or why not?