Essay On Protecting America

Do you know how a bird protects its eggs? It protects them from harm when their young, because they are fragile and can’t fend for themself. In this way, it is kind of like the young America being protected by the presidents. The presidents had to create something to protect America when it was young, from things like other big, developed countries, and other strong economies. In doing so, they made things called foreign policies. Foreign policies are strategies to deal with other countries. Some of them made to deal with other countries included the Proclamation of Neutrality, The Embargo and Nonintercourse Act, The Monroe Doctrine. Sometimes, these good intentions failed. The Proclamation of Neutrality was made to keep the us neutral in order to offend no one and prevent wars. The Embargo and Nonitercouse Ac was made to cut off trade with two countries, but instead caused the US to suffer. Also, the monroe Doctrine protected America in its early stages of development when Europe wanted to colonize in the same spot. They made these foreign policies to protect the young …show more content…
So they decided to sabotage those countries. In 1807, Thomas Jefferson was able to get congress to pass the Embargo Act. This law was made so Americans couldn’t trade with other countries. They hoped it would hurt those other counties by cutting off their supplies. Despite their intentions, this ended up hurting the US. It ended up reducing trade. With the decreased amount of trade, this end up with 80 million dollars being lost. So later on, this law was replaced by the Nonintercourse Act, wich let the U.S trade with everyone except France and Britain. These two laws helped keep America isolated by cutting of trading with other countries. This is an example of how the US foreign policy did NOT help the