USA HISTORY

Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century expansionists such as Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred Thayer Mahan urged the United States to

(A) extend its influence over the Middle East and the subcontinent of India.

(B) ** acquire overseas territories, especially in the Pacific.

(C) seek better trade relations with Latin America.

(D) negotiate economic and cultural exchange programs with nations in Asia.

Concept note-1: -By arguing that sea power-the strength of a nation’s navy-was the key to strong foreign policy, Alfred Thayer Mahan shaped American military planning and helped prompt a worldwide naval race in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Concept note-2: -The three reasons the US expanded overseas was for economical power in overseas markets, to civilized non white nations like the Europeans did during the birth of America, and because the frontier was closed and Americans wanted to expand their influence.

Concept note-3: -Who Was Alfred Thayer Mahan? Alfred Thayer Mahan was a late 19th and early 20th century United States Navy officer, an instructor at the Naval War College, author, and naval historian. He is considered America’s foremost naval strategist, advocating for the expansion of the US fleet and a vigorous foreign policy.

Concept note-4: -Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) was a naval strategist, historian, and leading advocate of a powerful U.S. Navy. He was very influential over his friend and colleague, Teddy Roosevelt.