What was the reason for issuing the Monroe Doctrine? a. To ...

[justinmsk]

What was the reason for issuing the Monroe Doctrine?
 
  a. To stop competing cotton interests in Latin America.
 b. To use the principal of Manifest Destiny to expand into South America.
 c. To prevent further European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
 d. To allow the US to use newly independent Latin American countries for raw materials in industrialization.
  e. To allow American bounty hunters to have jurisdiction in Latin America over runaway slaves.

Question 2

Bernardo O'Higgins became the first supreme dictator of Chile after
 
  a. overthrowing the Portuguese with the aid of Giuseppi Garabaldi
 b. routing the Spanish at the Battle of Chihuahua with support of Tupac Amaru.
 c. San Martin leading forces through Peru and surprising the Spanish at the Battle of Chacabuco
 d. Irish nationalist forces were forced into exile by the British, and sought to displace Britain economically in Latin America
  e. none of these.

[bpool94]

Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

c