Discuss the Monroe Doctrine and explain how American foreign ...

[sheilaspns]

Question 1

Evangelical Protestant Christianity has
 
  a. played no political role in Western societies.
  b. declined and almost disappeared in the United States.
  c. spread in Latin America, in part because of the Catholic Church's conservative position on several social issues.
  d. made millions of converts in the Middle East.
  e. supported abortion rights in the United States.

Question 2

Discuss the Monroe Doctrine and explain how American foreign policy leaders applied it in the decades immediately following the Civil War.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[jesse.fleming]

Answer 1

c

Answer 2

Students will note that, with the exception of Mexico, the United States never threatened to use military force against any European nation that might have had colonial ambitions in the Western Hemisphere. Even in the case of Mexico, Seward never invoked the Monroe Doctrine by name. He did, however, earn the respect of European nations for the resolve of the United States to act in its own interests with regard to the Western Hemisphere. Better students will point out that, despite the failure of the United States to acquire territory in Latin America, it did manage to expand its economic influence, especially through the efforts of Hamilton Fish. The result was a gradual de facto assertion of the Monroe Doctrine. Fish's efforts were capped by Grant's corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which specified that no territory in the Western Hemisphere could ever be transferred to a European power.

[sheilaspns]

TYSM

[tkempin]

Excellent