Monroe's+Doctrine

toc =Questions= Write a paragraph or so that states your question, explains why you chose that question, and what other questions you considered but decided .against. What led Monroe to creating the Monroe Doctrine? What did the Monroe Doctrine state?

=Gathering and Evaluating Evidence= Start by explaining where you began and what that turned up. Share the struggles you faced in this stage. 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? What led Monroe to making the Doctrine is the war of 1812, because when they won the war against Britain it gave the U.S. a lot of power. The Monroe Doctrine stated that the U.S. would take control on supporting the western hemisphere countries over Britain.

Document 1
We started by going to wikipedia and searching the Monroe Doctrine, after we read the doctrine we took all of the information and we were wondering what led up to making this doctrine. So we were thinking and looking for what happened to make Monroe make this, and we found out it was the war of 1812. The war of 1812 was when the U.S. declared war on Britain, however Britain did have more power than the U.S. However the U.S. did defeat Britain and now they had a lot of power and since we had all of this power and we had a lt of supplies and were friends with France we decided to help support the Western Hemisphere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

Document 2
The Monroe Doctrine was a policy of the U.S. introduced on December 2, 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. At the same time, the doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies or in the internal concerns of European countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine



=Interpretation= What did you find? How do you feel about your conclusion? Was your conclusion surprising?. We found out that Monroe declared war on Britain in 1812, called the War of 1812. After they defeated Britain it gave the U.S. a lot of power because Britain was a powerful country which helped us support the Western Hemisphere which this proved that the U.S. is capable of more than they thought and that they are growing. It was surprising that we(U.S.) won against Britain in the war of 1812.