User:Atcovi/VA and US History/Monroe's Foreign Policy


 * Really FP of Sec. of State, John Q. Adams.
 * Accomplishments
 * US/Canada border is demilitarized.
 * US/Canada border is set at 49th parallel.
 * Joint occupation with Britain of Oregon is reaffirmed.
 * Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
 * Spain ceded Florida to the US.
 * US acknowledges border along Red River, Arkansas River, and the 42nd Parallel.

The Gist of the Monroe Doctrine
The Americas are closing out any European colonization. A loophole exists in the doctrine. The US military was not good compared to the French and English military, so this was needed. The world powers roll their eyes to this document, but by the 1900s when the US military is strong, this is when the Doctrine is respected.

As the country expanded, the US tried to keep the number of slaves and free states equal. The states come into the US in pairs so that there is a balance of free and slave states.

The North is furious with Missouri being a slave state, so the North proposes...
 * Tallmadge Amendment - Missouri can come in as a slave state, but over the next 25 years it needs to end slavery.

The Missouri Compromise (1820)
The Tallmadge Amendment fails and Missouri is admitted as a slave state. Maine was admitted as a free state. This was done to maintain the balance. The 3rd term is that slavery, in the rest of the Louisiana Territory, was prohibited on land north of 36 30'N latitude.

But they are still threatened as the Lousiana Territory, to them, is going to be admitted as free land and ruin the balance... so the South takes Texas to balance this out.