HIST 2340W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: David Ames Wells, Frederick Jackson Turner, Second Industrial Revolution
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January 26, 2017: the great transformation in us foreign policy 1865-1900. Driving force behind changes: shift in american ideas. Naval office and professor naval war college, author of the influence of sea. Excerpt: colonies attached to the mother country nation at sea the enemy must be kept not only out of our ports, but far away from our coasts . Calls for acquisition of pseudo colonies, can be used as outposts for american naval vessels. Smaller colonies that can maintain naval fleet across seas, not like huge european colonies. Calls for construction of a new navy that can project force to maintain neutral commerce. Need to be tough and active in building a military and in scrambling for new territories to avoid european encroachment on us opportunities. Us economy in the late 19th century. Newly developed steel rails, electric lights, steam turbine, internal combustion engine all made transport cheaper and more efficient.
