The United States and Latin America
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Welcome
to the Reading pages. International relations for the United States began
by focusing their attention on Latin America.
You just finished reading about the move to acquire land west. A rise in nationalism grew in the United States. With the pride that comes with nationalism, the government began to exert its muscles. One of the first documents that had, and still has, influenced the policy of the United States, was the Monroe Doctrine. Read an excerpt from the Monroe Doctrine on page 327 of your book, Call to Freedom. This idea was based on the theory that the United States, as the most powerful nation in the Western Hemisphere, possessed a 'manifest right' to regulate the destinies of the turbulent southern republics. |
Your assignment to be placed
in your notebook:
1. What warning did President
Monroe give the European powers in the Monroe Doctrine?
2. What do you think is
most important about this document? Why did some European leaders criticize
it?
3. Look at the map on page
326. List the countries of Latin America in order of their dates of independence.
Highlight the ones that received independence after the Monroe Doctrine
was issued.