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Monroe’s Foreign Policy
Chapter 7D (262-263)
The student will understand U.S. foreign
policy under President Monroe, including
the Monroe Doctrine
AL COS 10th grade #21
I. Foreign Policy Under Monroe
A. End of Disagreement Between Federalists
and Republicans
1. Stopped after the end of the Napoleonic
Wars and the signing of the Treaty of
Ghent
2. Between 1816 and 1824 American
foreign policy reflected consensus,
not conflicts
B. John Quincy Adams
1. Qualities:
a. Extraordinary diplomat
b. Austere and scholarly man
c. Tough negotiator
SEE NOTES
d. Fervent nationalist
2. Political Accomplishments:
a. Secretary of State
b. Served as Minister to Russia
c. One of the negotiators of the Treaty of
Ghent
d. During his term the U.S. and Great Britain
signed the Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817.
e. Attended the British-American Convention
of 1818.
f. Dealt with the Spanish in the settlement of
Florida
g. Spanish agreed to the Adams-Onis Treaty
(also known as the Transcontinental Treaty
SEE NOTES
C. Conventions and Treaties
1. With Great Britain:
a. Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817--effectively
demilitarized the Great Lakes by severely
restricting the number of ships that could
maintain there.
b. British American Convention of 1818
--fixed the boundary between the United
States and Canada from the Lake of the
Woods West to the Rockies and restored
SEE NOTES to Americans the same fishing rights off
Newfoundland that they had enjoyed before
the War of 1812.
2. With Spain: Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819
--Also called the Transcontinental Treaty.
Spain was to cede East Florida to the Unite
States, to renounce its claims to all of
West Florida, and agreed to a Southern
border of the United States West of
the Mississippi River that ran North
along the Sabine River and then
Westward along the Red and Arkansas
Rivers to the Rocky Mountains,
finally following the forty-second parallel
to the Pacific.
II. The Monroe Doctrine
A. Backround
1. The Americans wanted to expand
the U.S. to Texas and take Mexico.
2. The Spanish
a. They were not really worried
about American encroachment
b. They were worried about a
revolution against Spanish rule
in South America.
3. Holy Alliance
a. Spanish sought support of European
monarchs
b. Britain refused to join
c. George Canning, Britain's Foreign
Minister, proposed that they issue a
joint statement opposing any European
interference in South America and that
neither would annex any part of Spain's
old empire in the New World.
SEE NOTES d. The Holy Alliance aimed to squash
revolutions everywhere in the name of
Christians’ principles.
B) Monroe's Doctrine
1. Four Key Principles:
a. Unless American interests were
involved, the United States' policy
was to abstain from European Wars.
b. The "American Continents" were not
"subjects" for future colonization
by any European power.
c. Any attempt at European colonization
in t he New World would be construed
by the United States as an unfriendly act.
d. It stressed that Europe and the Western
Hemisphere had essentially different
political systems
2. The Policy:
a. Some parts of Monroe's message
agreed with Canning’s proposals.
b. Adams said it was better for the U. S.
to make its own declaration
c. Adams also said that the U.S. had no
intent to seize Texas or Cuba, but the
could become a part of the U.S. if they
chose to do so.
d. The Monroe Doctrine kept the option for
America to extend control over Texas
and Cuba and recognize the new Latin
American governments.
Monroe’s Foreign Policy
Chapter 7D (262-263)
The student will understand U.S. foreign
policy under President Monroe, including
the Monroe Doctrine
AL COS 10th grade #21