JAMES MONROE

5th President
Era of Good
Feelings
Missouri
Compromise
Monroe Doctrine

Spanish Cession (1819)

Spains

Latin American colonies began to have

their own revolutions in the 1810s and 1820s.
Spain did not have the resources to stop these
rebellions and lost many of her colonies.
Spain offered to sell Florida to the United
States because Spain could not control the
Native American population.

The Monroe Doctrine (1823)

America

wanted these new democracies to

remain free of European interference

MONROE DOCTRINE

USA declared that

the Americas were
off limits to new
European
colonization

B. President Monroe gave a speech proclaiming:

The occasion has been judged proper for

asserting, as a principle in which the rights and
interests of the United States are involved, that
the American continents, by the free and
independent condition which they have assumed
and maintain, are henceforth not to be
considered as subjects for future colonization
by any European powers.