Abstract
The Grant presidency is an ideal lens to see the foreign policy dilemmas that U.S. policy-makers faced throughout the nineteenth century. During his presidency, Grant confronted the contentious Alabama claims dispute with Great Britain, an insurgency in Spanish Cuba that threatened to draw the United States, and attempted to purchase the nation of the Dominican Republic. Grant's foreign policy was a milestone. It marked the beginning of the economic imperialism which drove U.S. foreign policy throughout the Gilded Age as American businesses desired opening up new markets to American goods. The Ulysses S. Grant administration primarily dealt with an uprising in Spanish Cuba known as the Ten Years’ War that threatened to draw in the United States. The greatest legacy of Grant and Hamilton Fish's foreign policy was the avoidance of war. The Alabama claims and the continued Cuban insurgency could have resulted in a clash of arms.
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