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1 - Springboards and Strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Walter LaFeber
Walter LaFeber
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Cornell University, New York
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The Civil War created the beginnings of a new world for U.S. foreign policy, but it was another generation before that future could be realized. The Civil War officially ended the slavery of African Americans, but the Emancipation Proclamation was not a commitment as well to raise the former slaves to equality. The Civil War and the acts of Reconstruction turned the United States into a nation-state. Many of the industries spawned by the Civil War helped shape U.S. foreign relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The racism and xenophobia shaped the ideology of following generations, including those who made U.S. foreign policy. Post-Civil War America remained a vast, unwieldy country of isolated, parochial communities, but the federal government had demonstrated its power to invade these areas and integrate them into an industrializing, railway-linked world that had global boundaries.
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The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations , pp. 1 - 19
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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  • Springboards and Strategies
  • Walter LaFeber, Cornell University, New York
  • Book: The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations
  • Online publication: 05 March 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139015677.003
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  • Springboards and Strategies
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  • Book: The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations
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  • Springboards and Strategies
  • Walter LaFeber, Cornell University, New York
  • Book: The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations
  • Online publication: 05 March 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139015677.003
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