American Foreign Policy

Four Schools

Jeffersonian School

• Third American president (1801-1809)

• Declaration of Independence

• pure frontier democracy

• avoid entangling alliances

Thomas Jefferson

Hamiltonian School

• First Secretary of the Treasury

• raised funds to win Revolutionary War

• wanted US capital to be New York City

• wanted to create a Bank of America

• wanted USA to trade with BritainAlexander Hamilton

Jacksonian School

• Seventh American president (1829-1837)

• war hero (War of 1812)

• first non-aristocratic president

• popular democracy• created modern

Democratic PartyAndrew Jackson

Wilsonian School

• 28th American president (1913-1921)

• US war aims: make world safe for democracy

• famous 14 points• League of Nations

Woodrow Wilson