European monarchies form the Quadruple Alliance to suppress democratic revolutions

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monroe doctrine
MONROE DOCTRINE

• European monarchies form the Quadruple Alliance
  to suppress democratic revolutions
• Newly independent nations of Latin America gain
  the sympathy of the American people
• Britain and U.S. are alarmed at Russian
  expansionist aims
• Britain proposes to issue a joint statement with
  the U.S. against intervention in Latin America
• U.S. issues the Monroe Doctrine

• European monarchies defeat Napoleon in 1815
• Simon Bolivar and Jose San Martin lead the
  independence movement in the Latin American
  colonies and overthrow Spain
• Russian tsar announces in 1821 that his empire
  extends south into Oregon
• British fear that the Quadruple Alliance may try
  to suppress Latin American democracies
• Sec. Of State John Q. Adams advises that the U.S.
  issue an independent statement opposing
  intervention in Latin American

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MONROE DOCTRINE

• British and U.S. leaders decided they had a
  common interest in protecting North and South
  American from the possible aggression of a
  European power
• British initiative
• British Foreign Secretary George Canning
  suggested to Richard Rush, U.S. minister in
  London, the idea of issuing a joint
  Anglo-American warning to the European powers not
  to intervene in South America

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MONROE DOCTRINE

• American response
• Secretary of State John Quincy Adams believed
  that joint action with Britain would restrict
  U.S. opportunities for further expansion in the
  hemisphere
• If the U.S. acted alone, Britain could be counted
  upon to stand behind U.S. policy
• No European power would risk going to war in
  South America, and if it did, the British navy
  would surely defeat the aggressor

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monroe doctrine
MONROE DOCTRINE

• Aimed at European Powers in the Quadruple
  Alliance Russia, Prussia, Austria and Great
  Britain.
• Also a response to the collapse of the Spanish
  empire in the Americas and our recent history
  with Great Britain and France.

• Keep European monarchies out of the Western
  Hemisphere.
• Their government systems are foreign to the U.S.

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MONROE DOCTRINE

• Referred to as Americas Self Defense Doctrine.
• It is a continuation of President Washingtons
  neutrality and isolationist policies.
• Past problems with Europe led the US to declare
  the Americas off-limits to Europe

US protector of new democracies in the Western
Hemisphere No European Colonization in the
Americas
US recognized existing European Colonies
Monroe Doctrine
US will stay out of European affairs
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Western Hemisphere or the Americas.
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• New Latin American countries were formed from
  successful revolutions.
• US protector of new democracies in the Western
  Hemisphere

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• Claimed by the US, Great Britain and Russia
• Russia was claiming California too

Rush-Bagot 1818