James Monroe Foreign Policies

Impact

Florida

• the land controlled by America more than doubled
• Provided space for more immigrants
• Settlers have the opportunity to move west
• the United States would be much smaller without the Louisiana Purchase, barely making it eligible to be a continental power
• created parts of over 11 current states

Boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase

Conclusion

The Louisiana Purchase

Nightfall on the Trail of Tears

In conclusion, James Monroe made a handful of advances in the power and expansion of America as a nation. James Monroe may have created some changes that weren't so beneficial to Americans, such as establishing the idea of moving Native Americans out of their homelands. However, Americans are still benefiting from the changes that Monroe made. For example, without the advances Monroe made the United States could be controlled by a European nation or citizens in Kansas may be under control of another country. These advances made American troops and citizens more powerful. Which lead them to becoming a world-wide superpower.

Motivation

• Thomas Jefferson appoints Monroe to purchase the city of New Orleans
• controlling trade on the Mississippi River
• New Orleans is a major trading point
• fertile soil and vast land to grow crops
• Manifest Destiny -- Americans wanted a large and powerful nation, spanning across the continent

Spanish Florida

Impact

• America purchases Florida for $5 million
• The Panic of 1819 (an economic crisis)
• trading points along Florida's enormous coast
• today Florida brings in millions of dollars from tourists and retirees with its beaches and the Everglades

Summary

• slaves and criminals were fleeing to Florida from the continental United States
• they found shelter with Creek and Seminole Native Americans
• plantation owners were losing money because slaves were escaping
• Native Americans raided villages in the U.S.

Motivation

• Napoleon, the French leader, offered all of the Louisiana Purchase
• Hamilton and Monroe purchase the whole Louisiana Purchase for four cents an acre
• Purchased without Jefferson's direction

Illustration of Native Americans Stopping on the Way to the West of the Mississippi River

Summary

• American citizens couldn't retrieve slaves because it would risk conflict with Spain
• Monroe tries to convince Spain to give Florida to the U.S.A.
• Monroe places General Andrew Jackson at border of Florida to keep slaves and criminals from entering

The Trail of Tears

Introduction

Motivation

• American citizens living on the eastern coast were populating rapidly and needed more space
• immigrants from all over the world were emigrating to America quickly
• Native Americans were thought to be "taking up American land"
• Native Americans were not thought of as United States citizens

Impact

Summary

• James Monroe proposes to move all Native Americans east of the Mississippi River to the west of the Mississippi

Works Cited

Impact

James Monroe made many economic, political, and militant advances in the two terms of presidency he served. He also made many advances in the expansion of America, strengthening the U.S. to become a continental power. These decisions all eventually lead to the development of the United States as a superpower.

• The Trail of Tears begins
• takes nearly all Native Americans from their homelands east of the Mississippi
• Native American tribes & cultures decrease due to different climate and new species to hunt
• Americans east of the Mississippi River have more land

• United States becomes the greatest power influencing the Western Hemisphere
• in late 1800's the United States Military and Navy has enough power to enforce the Monroe Doctrine
• countries in Central, North, and South America are protected and have good relations with the United States
• European Powers stay out of North and South America
• America is uninvolved European issues for the time period

James Monroe

Primary Sources

"Boundaries of the Lousiana Purchase." The Monticello Classroom. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2015. <http://classroom.monticello.org/kids/gallery/image/229/Boundaries-of-the-Louisiana-Purchase/>.

"James Monroe." Library of Congress. loc.gov, n.d. Web. 18 May 2015. <http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c04958/>.

"Keep Off! The Monroe Doctrine Must Be Respected." Library of Congress. loc.gov, n.d. Web. 18 May 2015. <http://www.loc.gov/item/2002697703/>.

"Nightfall on the Trail of Tears." Max D. Standley. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2015. <http://www.maxdstandley.com/trail_of_tears_series/nightfall_on_the_trail_of_tears-trail_of_tears.html>.

"The Spanish Cession." Mrv and Uyne. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 May 2015. <http://www.mrvanduyne.com/youngnation/monroe/florida.html>.

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American Experience. PBS, n.d. Web. 18 May 2015. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/presidents-monroe/>.

"American President: James Monroe." Miller Center. Univ. of VA., n.d. Web. 11 May 2015. <http://millercenter.org/president/monroe/essays/biography/5>.

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Charlie Ashworth

Period 4

Social Studies

Monroe Doctrine

Motivation

• The Great Powers of Europe want to regain control of their newly-independent colonies in the Americas
• Americans wanted to keep European influences out of North America
• Americans threatened by the powers of Europe trying to colonize and keep territories the Americas
• would make U.S. most powerful country involved in North and South America

Keep Off! The Monroe Doctrine Must Be Respected

James Monroe Foreign Policy Decisions

Photograph showing Uncle Sam keeping European Powers "out" of the Americas

Summary

• Monroe claims that the United States will be the only great power influencing the American continents
• warns countries that any actions taken on newly-independent nations will be considered a threat to the U.S.
• the doctrine states, "The American continents...are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers."