Monroe Doctrine Flashcard

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Who articulated the United States’ policy on the new political order developing in the rest of the Americas in 1823?

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John Quincy Adams

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What were the three main concepts of the Monroe Doctrine?

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Non-colonization, non-intervention, spheres of influence

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What did the Monroe Doctrine signify in terms of the relationship between the New World and Europe?

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A clear break between the New World and Europe

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What did the British Foreign Minister George Canning suggest to Americans in 1823?

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A joint declaration to deter any other power from intervening in Central and South America

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What did Monroe outline as the two separate spheres of influence in the Monroe Doctrine?

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The Americas and Europe

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What did Monroe pledge to avoid involvement in, as part of the Monroe Doctrine? Options: The ongoing Greek struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire, The political affairs of Europe, The existing European colonies already in the Americas, All of the above

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All of the above

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What did Monroe's declaration, combined with ideas of Manifest Destiny, provide precedent and support for?

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U.S. expansion on the American continent

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What enabled the U.S. to enforce the Monroe Doctrine in the late 1800s?

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Economic and military power

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What did Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary do to the original meaning of the Monroe Doctrine?

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It inverted the original meaning.

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What did Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary come to justify?

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Unilateral U.S. intervention in Latin America