Monroe+vs.+Latin+Nations

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Questions:

====// **Wally:** // My question that I chose for my dilemma is: "Why did Americans want to be free from future European colonization?" I chose this question because James Monroe created the Monroe Doctrine to not let any foreign policy stay or come into America. America didn't want anything to do with Britain either. Monroe said "the political system of the European powers was very different from that of the Americas." I wondered what drove Americans to not want anything to do with other countries but themselves. I had a different previous question that I decided to change. My old question was: "What was the hidden message in the Monroe Doctrine?" In my textbook, they stated their was a hidden message. I tried to find evidence to answer my question but couldn't find any valuable information. ====




 * //Stepfanie://** My question I chose for our dilemma is "Why did so many people dislike the Spaniards?" I chose this question because I read that so many people were in a rebellion against Spain, and I focused mainly on Miguel Hidalgo because he inspired the rebellion. It also states that Miguel Hidalgo spoke to a crowd of people and told a speech saying, "Down with bad government!" and "Death to Spaniards!" That is why I chose this question, to understand why so many people disliked the Spaniards.

= Gathering and Evaluating Evidence: = ====//**Wally:**// First I started finding documents of information on the Monroe Doctrine. I had some struggles on finding questions to choose from. So what I did was read the information, and based on the information I read, I created a question from it. That is how I found my current question. I found two good websites that I could find information on, and it had a lot of detail for me to use to be able to back up my answers to my question.====

http://millercenter.org/president/monroe/essays/biography/5
====These are the websitse that I looked at to find my information. I felt that this was a really good information site that I found all of my answers on. I looked very closely to the information that I was giving in my source. I had different questions like why would America want to be all on their own and not want to be included in other foreign countries? Why would Monroe try to avoid Spain? I found different information on these bullet points down below that created these different questions. ====
 * ====America wanted nothing to do with Spain.====
 * ====America didn't want to join power with Britain.====
 * ====Britain even wanted to join a statement with America to not let Spain invade the Americas. Monroe's advisers wanted Monroe to do the statement, but Monroe did not.====
 * ====Monroe said that the "European powers was very different from that of the Americas."====
 * ====Monroe DOES NOT want to go to war with any European country either.====
 * ====Since Monroe didn't include themselves in any European power, he even added more states to America.====
 * ====Britain actually favored the Monroe Doctrine.====

//**Stepfanie:**// Where I began with my evidence was searching for documents that were written for or by Miguel Hidalgo, or other documents or letters written about the Spaniards, or the "Cry of Dolores". Most of the things that turned up were biography's about Miguel Hidalgo and pages about the war for Mexican Independence. The struggles I faced in this process were not knowing the EXACT words I would say while searching, also, not knowing what type of information to find.

Then share with us the documents used. Describe how you considered source, context, corroboration, etc. What questions and answers came and went in this stage? Stepfanie: [] The author of this page could be some type of geographer or historian. The purpose of this document is to inform others about Miguel Hidalgo and the things he has done. And the audience would be students like us trying to learn more about his life, or just people in general who are interested in learning about him. This document was written in the present year, 2014. The person who wrote this wanted to use specified and detailed words for their word selection. That is how I analyzed and evaluated the document.

= Interpretation: = What did you find? How do you feel about your conclusion? Was your conclusion surprising? ====//**Wally:**// From the information on the bullet points above that I collected, I combined all of the information and put it together and came up with a pretty good answer to my question. I found out that America didn't want anything to do with Spain in their country. They also didn't want anything to do with Britain either. Britain tried to join with America to exclude Spain to not invade, but Monroe did not want to. His advisers wanted him to, but Monroe decided to deny it. Europe to Monroe had completely different decisions and powers compared to America. In Monroe's mind, Europe and America were two different things. Which in the future, could affect our own lifestyle. ====

//** Stepfanie: **// I found out a lot about my question, so here is what I found. I already knew America and it's people hated Spain and the Spaniards, I knew from my question. But, What I did find was that the Spaniards were trying to become independent, but Monroe wouldn't listen to them. The Spaniards were very determined on getting what they wanted, which was their independence. Also, in 1810, a Venezuelan man named Simon Bolivar, started a rebellion