Monroe Doctrine Quiz

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

• John Quincy Adams

• George Canning

• Theodore Roosevelt

• James Madison

What were the three main concepts of the Monroe Doctrine?

• Expansion, non-intervention, spheres of influence

• Spheres of influence, colonization, intervention

• Non-colonization, non-intervention, spheres of influence

• Colonization, intervention, expansion

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

• A desire for European colonies in the New World

• A push for European expansion in the New World

• A call for European intervention in the New World

• A clear break between the New World and Europe

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

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

• A unilateral declaration by the United States

• A statement of bilateral nature to limit United States expansion

• A call for British recognition of the Latin American republics

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

• Europe and Asia

• North America and South America

• The Americas and Africa

• The Americas and Europe

What did Monroe pledge to avoid involvement in, as part of the Monroe Doctrine?

• 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

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

• Asian expansion in the Western Hemisphere

• Latin American expansion in the Western Hemisphere

• European expansion in the New World

• U.S. expansion on the American continent

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

• Economic and military power

• Diplomatic alliances with European powers

• Isolationist policies

• Colonial expansion in the Americas

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

• It reinforced the original meaning

• It had no impact on the original meaning

• It inverted the original meaning

• It expanded the original meaning

What did Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary come to justify?

• Unilateral U.S. intervention in Latin America

• Asian intervention in Latin America

• European intervention in Latin America

• Multilateral intervention in Latin America