Which word best describes early american foreign policy?
a) internationalism
b) imperialism
c) isolationism
d) militarism

Option C

Explanation:

Isolationism is the right answer.

The third president of US Thomas Jefferson said about the foreign policy that " Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none". It was these principles that guided American foreign policy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its Geographical location was also important for its isolationism. The US had commercial relations with other countries but it stayed away from political alliances.

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”