Monroe Administration: Land

& Foreign Policy

APUSH - Spiconardi

To avoid potential conflict in the Great Lakes,

the U.S. and Britain reached a demilitarization agreement Limited the number of vessels and cannons

each country could have on the Great Lakes Outcome

Created the world’s then longest demilitarized border (5,527 miles)

Limited the threat of potential naval threats

Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)

A treaty was signed to

resolve fishing disputes and boundary disputes Determined the 49th parallel

would be northern most extent of the Louisiana territory

Oregon Country would be jointly occupied by the United States and Britain

U.S. regained fishing rights in Newfoundland

The Convention of 1818

Georgia and Alabama planters wanted

Florida Why?

Florida was a refuge for fugitive slaves Feared the hostile Seminole Indians

In 1818, Andrew Jackson leads troops into Florida He executed two British traders Killed numerous Indians Attacked Spanish forts

Spain realizes it cannot defend Florida and cedes Florid to the U.S. under the treaty

Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)

After the Napoleonic Wars, the U.S. feared European involvement

in the New World Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams, developed the following

policy:

Monroe Doctrine

We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.

Reactions?

Latin America? Britain? Other European

nations?

Monroe Doctrine

Missouri Compromise (1820)