Imperialism and War: American Foreign Affairs 1865-1920 Americans also felt secure from external threat because of their geographic isolation between two oceans, which gave them a sense of invulnerability. Until very late in the 19th century Americans remained essentially indifferent to foreign policy and 327.02 Kb. 3
A brief History of Oil & Gas off Florida See Timeline Insert). Humble Oil and Refining Company (later Exxon and now Exxon-Mobil) claimed the prize in 1943 with a wildcat well drilled to 11,800 feet near the small community of Sunniland on State Road 29 in Collier County 19.18 Kb. 1
An age of expansionism boundless america Atlantic, the Pacific, Canada, and Mexico. How “natural” and firm, how predestined those boundaries seem today! If we are to understand the almost obsessive desire of earlier Americans to expand their boundaries 19.74 Kb. 1