Além do Golfo do México

O expansionismo americano e a abertura de uma nova fronteira

Abstract

This article intends to study how a trip by the United States Navy, sponsored by the White House and the National Congress, in particular the Federal Senate, captained by an officer, Commodore Matthew C. Perry with his black ships of American naval power, in towards Japan, was the result of an internal policy based on the notion of territorial expansionism of that nation towards the Pacific Ocean. Movement known as the March to the West and marked by the search for a new frontier of opportunities for the State and American investors in territories inhabited by Amerindians and Asian peoples.