Century, transformations that changed the country from being one country distant from the center of International Conflict and activities into becoming a central actor. Not the most dominant, most powerful. A country to be reckoned with. One way to think about this is the u. S. Goes from being a continental power after the civil war to being a power now with International Range it did not have before with a whole new set of problems related but also different from the issues of the postcivil war decades we dealt with before. In the first proposition central to the way we think about American History is the u. S. Is always an international society. International in the obvious ways but also in the sense the u. S. Has always depended upon the movement of people, goods finance from far away. There was never a time when americans living in the u. S. Were isolated from the rest of the world. Never a time when they were an island without connections elsewhere. Our ideas of governance, the pe
From the issues of the postcivil war decades that we dealt with before. The first proposition that has been with us in this course that is central to the way that we think about American History is that the United States has always been an international society. International and obvious ways, people see the classroom with having people of different backgrounds and areas of the world, but also international in the sense that the United States has always depended upon the movement of people, the movement of goods, and the movement of finances from far away. There was never, never a time when the United States or americans living and what would become the United States for nonamericans living and what would become United States never a time when they were isolated from the rest of the world. Never a time when they were an island without deep connections elsewhere. Our ideas of governments, people have populated our society, our trade, our economy have all been deeply dependent upon inter