The Monroe Doctrine
In the early 1800's, sectionalism,which is the loyalty of interests to your own region rather than a nation as a whole, was made. With sectionalism and other events going on in America, the nation felt very threatened. The US leaders believed that their country was in danger so in 1821, John Adams made a speech that stated that the American foreign policy would not include colonization. Soon after, President James Monroe made a speech as well, creating a policy known as the Monroe Doctrine which stated that all nations, including Europe, were to no longer interfere in the Western hemisphere or colonize in the American continents. This policy was presented during his seventh annual message to Congress. The reasoning for this new policy was that Monroe wanted to eliminate the threat of foreign countries trying to take land that the United States wanted to claim. This Doctrine demonstrates nationalism because the United States claimed all of the land in the American Continents and because they tried to prevent foreigners from invading into their great nation.
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These both represent James Monroe's argument on why we should create the new policy that he came up with.