Nationalism &
Monroe Doctrine
SWBAT
• Explain the reasons for issuance of
the Monroe Doctrine and principles
of the document
• Evaluate whether the Monroe
Doctrine was a policy of self-defense
or expansion
Do Now
• Explain what nationalism means to
you. How would someone show
their nationalism?
James Monroe
• 5th President
• DemocraticRepublican
• “Era of Good
Feelings”  spirit
of nationalism
swept the country
Nationalism
• Monroe and his Sec of State, John Quincy
Adams, wanted to reduce regional
tensions by promoting national
expansion  nationalism
• Nationalism- a feeling of pride in your
country
- began after American Revolution, but
grew as we acquired and defended our
territory, especially after the War of 1812
US Expansion
• How did we acquire our first large
piece of land?
US Expansion
1. Louisiana Purchase (1803)
2. Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
- Puts 49 degree parallel as our
northern border
3. Spain sold Florida to US & ended
claim to Oregon territory (1819)
US Expansion
• The question government faced:
How was the US going to protect its
growing nation from foreign
interference?
Background
1. European wars ended- US feared
European renewal of colonization in
Western Hemisphere
2. Russia intruded on US Pacific territory
3. Newly independent South American
countries- Should we have a
relationship with them?
Monroe Doctrine
• Monroe Doctrine- 1823
• Read the excerpts of the Monroe
Doctrine
• Answer questions with a partner
Monroe Doctrine
Doctrine includes:
1. US will not interfere in European
Affairs
2. US officially recognized
independent countries in South
America
Monroe Doctrine
3. US  Europe: no more colonization
in the Western Hemisphere!
4. Any attempt to colonize in the
Western Hemisphere would be
viewed as a direct threat/hostile
action toward the US
Monroe Doctrine
**This was only a paper declaration…
we had no power to enforce this!**
Significance of the Doctrine
1. Continued our
policy of neutrality
(in European
Affairs)
2. Established “US
presence” which
we still have today
Argument for the Doctrine
• Expansion Argument- justifies our
right to expand/colonize North
America
• Self-defense Argumentprotect our
interests in North
America
Wrap Up
• How is the geographic location of
the US strategic to the Monroe
Doctrine?
• How did the Doctrine reflect
isolationist/neutrality sentiment
of G. Washington?
Missouri
Compromise
SWBAT
• Explain how the compromise
showed limits of nationalism
Do Now: In the 1800s, what region of
the country was Missouri located?
Compromise
• With the expansion of the
United States, the following
question arose:
- Should slavery be allowed
in newly acquired lands?
- During this period the
debate was solved
politically with compromise
Missouri Compromise
• Missouri wanted to join the US as a
new state
• Problems:
Will it be a slave
state or a free state?
How will Congress keep politics in
balance (10 slave, 10 free)?
Missouri Compromise
• Solution: Henry Clay (Sen.-Kentucky)
• In 1820:
1. Missouri enters as a slave state &
Maine (northern dist. of Mass.)
enters as a free state
2. Slavery excluded from all territory in
LA Territory north of 36°30” parallel
line (except Missouri)
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise
• Was the Missouri Compromise
effective?
- short-sighted approach
- does not deal with land in the West
(Cal, New Mex, Oregon Territory)
that would eventually be settled
View of New States
NORTH
SOUTH
1. Afraid new territories 1. Gov’t has no right to
would be slave states
tell citizens they can
& the South control
or cannot take slaves
of the Senate
as property into
territories
2. Freed slave labor
would compete with 2. Slavery is legal.
Fugitive Slave Clause
white labor
is in the Constitution
 Slavery = Legal
In an April 22 letter to John Holmes, Thomas Jefferson
wrote that the division of the country created by the
Compromise line would eventually lead to the
destruction of the Union:
"...this momentous question, like a fire bell in the
night, awakened and filled me with terror. I
considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is
hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a
reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical
line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and
political, once conceived and held up to the angry
passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every
new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper."
Question…
• Thomas Jefferson said
the Missouri
Compromise “filled
him with terror.”
-Why might
Jefferson have
viewed the
compromise this
way?
Wrap Up
• What did the Missouri Compromise suggest
about the limits of nationalism in the
United States in the 1820s?
*Some felt regional interests were more
important than the larger interests of
the nation
• How had the government tried to avert a
constitutional crisis?
• In your opinion, did the Missouri
Compromise ignite the Civil War?