What role did domestic politics and economic realities play in establishing an american foreign policy?

During the Age of Imperialism, the bulk of British emigration, trade, and capital went to areas outside the formal British Empire. European merchants had the ability to roam the high seas and appropriate surpluses from around the world.

Cherokee  removal, part of the trail of tears, refers to the  forced  relocation between 1836 and 1839 of thecherokee  nation from  their lands ingeorgia, south carolina, north carolina, tennessee, texas, and alabama to the indian territory (present day oklahoma)  in  the thenwestern united states, and the resultant deaths