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AP U.S. History Exam 1.19. The image reflects which aspect of United States foreign policy?

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00:00

[ musical flourish ]

00:03

And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by isolationism,

00:07

the cold shoulder of foreign policy.

00:09

Yeah. Like that.

00:10

All right, check out the picture.

00:11

The image. Right here.

00:15

It reflects which aspect of United States foreign policy?

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All right, and here are your potential answers.

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[ mumbles ]

00:26

[ mumbling continues ] All right.

00:29

Well, first, let's take a closer look at those fellas on the left.

00:33

Right here.

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One is labeled "Portugal," another "Spain,"

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"France," "England." These are the European

00:39

countries that had been playing in America's sandbox.

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Across that tiny river is Uncle Sam,

00:45

who stands next to a sign reading,

00:47

"No trespass. America for Americans."

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Might as well be, "get off my lawn, you crazy kids."

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In relation to U.S. foreign policy,

00:56

does this image reflect

00:58

B - the desire to extend

01:00

the territory of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

01:04

Hmm.

01:05

That's Manifest Destiny, which happened as a result

01:08

of the dynamic established in this cartoon.

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But it's not exactly what's being described here.

01:14

Could this image represent C -

01:16

Theodore Roosevelt's plan to "speak softly

01:18

and carry a big stick"?

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That stick stuff was a part of the Roosevelt

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Corollary, which granted the U.S. the ability

01:25

to intervene in Latin America.

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Except this cartoon casts us in the role of

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protector, not aggressor.

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What about D -

01:33

FDR's New Deal to end the Great Depression?

01:36

Well, the New Deal was heavily focused on

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domestic policy, not foreign policy.

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So that puts D a world apart.

01:43

Which means that this image most reflects A -

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the assertion that attempts to colonize the Americas

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would be considered an act of war.

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After standing up to repeated attempts

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of colonization, the U.S. decided it was

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high time to act as the big, bad protector

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of the western hemisphere.

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This cartoon is a visual representation of the Monroe Doctrine,

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which created a virtual "no trespassing" sign

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announcing America's intention to consider any attempt

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of European colonization

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an act of war. So A is the right answer.

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Isolationists hated the Monroe Doctrine, since it

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started the U.S. down a path of foreign intervention

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first warned against by George Washington.

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As they say, it takes two to entangle alliances.

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[ splash ]

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of colonization, the U.S. decided it was

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