Warm-up 10/2 Copy the following question and your response in your notes. What responsibilities do people with power have to those people with less power?
Lesson Objectives Read and understand an excerpt of important documents that influenced American foreign policy. Put early American foreign policy events in chronological order by creating a timeline.
Early U.S. Foreign Policy
Neutrality! Neutrality! Neutrality! Washington s Farewell Address September 19, 1796 Washington
Read the excerpt in the chart then complete the impact using what you read. President Document Impact George Washington (1789-1797) Washington s Farewell Address (1796)
Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur... So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government... In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations
Read the excerpt in the chart then complete the impact using what you read. President Document Impact George Washington (1789-1797) Washington s Farewell Address (1796) Promoted neutrality and warned against alliances with European nations
1803 Louisiana Purchase expands American territory along Mississippi River 1819 Florida ceded (given to) US by Spain 1823 Monroe Doctrine
Keep Out! Monroe The Monroe Doctrine 1823
Read the excerpt in the chart then complete the impact using what you read. President Document Impact James Monroe (1817-1825) Monroe Doctrine (1823)
...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. It was stated at the commencement of the last session that a great effort was then making in Spain and Portugal to improve the condition of the people of those countries, and that it appeared to be conducted with extraordinary moderation. It need scarcely be remarked that the results have been so far very different from what was then anticipated. Of events in that quarter of the globe, with which we have so much intercourse and from which we derive our origin, we have always been anxious and interested spectators. The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of the liberty and happiness of their fellow-men on that side of the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so.
It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defense. With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective Governments; and to the defense of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted. We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
Read the excerpt in the chart then complete the impact using what you read. President Document Impact James Monroe (1817-1825) Monroe Doctrine (1823) Still promoted neutrality but also stated that the US would protect the western hemisphere from European Influence