The maritime military was not paid in attention of its effectiveness for a long time. With a small naval force, the United States was neither successful in diplomatic relations nor national defense. The Navy and Coast Guard are crucial forces of the American military by maintaining the welfare of America both domestically and internationally. The Navy and Coast Guard were both needed, and they helped maintain the well-being of America domestically by protecting the coast of the America and defending domestic industries, and internationally by maintaining a distinct presence in world affairs.
Food was one of the most significant resources back in the 1800 and 1900. Back in those days, people mostly got their food from the environments they were in. As a result, most of the profits invented were related to services such as manufacturing foods or transporting foods. In order to get more profit from food, people needed more territory where natural resources exist such as lands or ocean. One of the most crucial resources, fish, is at sea. However, without the help of a Coast Guard, a nation cannot maintain its territory, and cannot protect their natural resources from foreign nations. Though building and maintaining Coast Guard costs a lot of money, it definitely pays back. For example, during 1870s, 25 Chinese men in Santa Barbara Country were engaged in fishing and they caught 50,000 pounds of fish in a season. They do not think about the future fish and they exterminated fish in all accessible places (Jordan 78). Furthermore, they exported $12,000 worth of shrimp and dried fish per month (Jordan 81). Chinese “stole” all the property that belongs to U.S. Chinese people also took away the job opportunities from local people whose career is fishing since they poached all the fish and sold them to both domestic and international markets, leading to a shortage of job opportunities for Americans. For