History

First prompt

Please read the materials and view the videos in the links below:

http://www.americanyawp.com/text/18-industrial-america/

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/the-early-republic/politics-society-early-19th-c/a/irish-and-german-immigration

http://www.americanyawp.com/text/19-american-empire/

http://www.americanyawp.com/text/20-the-progressive-era/

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/age-of-empire/a/the-presidency-of-theodore-roosevelt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2T7CL9wqyM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmamZOAAJ0M

Consider what type of foreign policy the United States pursued at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.  In what ways did the United States become an empire?  Why did it pursue this type of foreign policy?  Please use specific examples.

Please Respond in TWO full pages!  Make sure you have well-developed paragraphs(s) and that your writing is grammatical.