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was a great thing for blacks they started rise up over slavery, they made a big impact in the wars, and they got the Declaration of Independence from Thomas Jefferson.
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Running head: EARLY AMERICAN WARS
Early American Wars
Early American Wars
When the European continent erupted in conflict in 1914, President Wilson declared America's neutrality. "He proposed an even-handed approach towards all the belligerents that was to be maintained in both "thought and deed."
In August 1914 America was overwhelmingly neutral and determined to stay so. Participation in World War I would represent a fundamental break of foreign policy tradition by the United States of avoiding direct military involvement in European conflicts. In addition to an isolationist foreign policy tradition, another factor against an American intervention was the growth in the United States of a relatively vibrant peace movement in the years from 1900 to 1914. The peace movement contained many prominent and respected members of the business community and government, and was a political force to be reckoned with.
But one of the most important potential deterrents to war lay in the multi-cultural nature of America's many ethnic identities. Large-scale immigration, especially from the eastern and southern parts of Europe, had created "a society where approximately seventeen million Americans were foreign born. Many of these recent arrivals did not speak English nor were they well assimilated into the dominant Anglo-American culture. Significant numbers of immigrants actually intended to return home and thus had little desire to ever become Americanized" (Wells, R., 2001, para 10). Furthermore, large numbers of Irish-Americans and German-Americans in the United States could be expected to demonstrate a natural antipathy toward the Allied cause. Thus the initial American policy of neutrality toward the war in Europe was a realistic strategy to avoid deepening political conflict between diverse communities of Americans possessing conflicting foreign policy loyalties.
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