Transcript Monroe Doctrine, John Q. Adams, Missouri Comp

Monroe Doctrine
• In 1816 James Monroe of Virginia is elected as president. Soon
after his inauguration in 1817, Monroe took a goodwill tour of
New England. It was impressive to most people that a
Republican from Virginia was being welcomed in the north. The
Boston Columbian Centinel declared that America had entered an
“Era of Good Feelings.”
*In 1815 Spain and Portugal defeated Napoleon. The two sides
decided that they wanted to reclaim their former colonies in
Latin America. Meanwhile, the Russians were establishing
trading posts in California.
* The Unites States realized that they had to do something
with other countries expanding their influence throughout
the world.
* Many Americans has wanted to acquire northern Mexico
and the Spanish colony of Cuba. The Russian action did
pose a threat to American trade with China, which brought
huge profits.
Monroe Doctrine
* In 1823, President Monroe made a message to Congress and
warned all outside powers not to interfere with affairs in the
Western Hemisphere. They should not try to create new
colonies or try to overthrow newly independent republics in the
hemisphere. The Unites States would consider these actions
“dangerous to our peace and safety.”
*At this time the U.S. also stated that they would not get
involved in European affairs or interfere with existing
colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
*These principals become known as the Monroe Doctrine.
John Quincy Adams
• Under James Monroe the Secretary of State was John Quincy
Adams. Adams established a foreign policy that was guided by
nationalism- the belief that national interests should be placed
ahead of the regional concerns or the interest of other countries.
*Adams prioritized the security of the nation and expansion of the
territory. Adams also worked out a treat with Great Britain to
reduce the number fleets both sides could have the Great Lakes.
Each side was left with only a few military vessels. The RushBagot Treaty (1817) eventually caused the United States and
Canada to completely demilitarize their common border.
John Quincy Adams
* Adams also arranged the Convention of 1818, which fixed the
U.S. border at the 49th parallel up to the Rocky Mountains.
Finally, he reached a compromise with Britain to jointly occupy
the Oregon Territory, for ten years.
*In 1819, too weak to police its territories in the United States,
Spain ceded Florida to the United States in the Adam-Onis Treaty
and
gave up claims to its Oregon Territory.
Missouri Compromise
• When a territory’s population reached about 60,000, the people
of that territory could petition the Union for admission, draft a
state constitution, elect representatives, and become part of the
United States, once Congress approved.
*In 1819, when Missouri petitioned for statehood, conflict arose.
In 1820, Henry Clay of Kentucky “Father of Compromise” comes
up with the Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise
*Terms:
a. Missouri is admitted as a new slave state.
b. Maine is admitted as a free state.
c. “36-30”- the rest of the Louisiana purchase doesn’t have
this debate. Essentially the Louisiana territory is
divided and any territory north of the line and anything
south of the line is allowed to have slavery.
*Why does the South agree to this line? The south believes that
slavery won’t expand beyond that line because the crops that
slaves are sued for won’t been grown up north. (cotton,
tobacco, rice, and sugar). They believed the climates were
wrong.
*They also used the word territory because they believed the
federal government could not tell a state what they could or
could not do and slavery was purely a state matter.
Missouri Compromise
*Why was the compromise important?
a. 1st North vs. South dispute that will most likely cause
war (spreading of slavery into new areas.)
b. 1 of the things historians point to explain southern
sectionalism. Where one part of the country is different
from the rest of the countries.