Erika Paola Alvarado

Grupo 432
Cultura Mx.-U.U.E.E

In the history of USA when the colonies were made and this country make they're own ,
Americans think that God select people to create a new model of society and they were thinking
that: "No nation ever existed without some sense of national destiny or purpose." Manifest
Destiny a phrase used by leaders and politicians in the 1840s to explain continental
expansion by the United States revitalized a sense of "mission" or national destiny for many
Americans. And while the United States put into motion a quest for its Manifest Destiny, Mexico
faced quite different circumstances as a newly independent country. Mexico achieved its
independence from Spain in 1821, but suffered terribly from the struggle. Recovery was difficult.

The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny (1823-1848).

As Spain's New World colonies declared their independence, the new republics of Argentina,
Chile, Venezuela, and others sought and received diplomatic recognition from the United States.
Great Britain wanted its share of trade with Latin America and thus made common cause with
the U.S. to exclude the so-called Holy Alliance: Prussia, Russia, and Austria. Practically
speaking, the U.S. military was not strong enough to keep them out, but not wanting to appear
to merely follow British policy, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams urged President James
Monroe to issue what became known as the Monroe Doctrine.

The Monroe Doctrine declared that Europe (including Great Britain) should not become
entangled in Latin American affairs and that the United States was prepared to go to war to
protect the Western Hemisphere from incursion by European powers. It was the first, but not the
last, assertion by the U.S. that it would supervise not merely its own foreign policy but also
hemispheric relations.

Freed from worries about Europe and competition in North America, the U.S. adopted the notion
of "Manifest Destiny," which called for the nation to stretch to the Pacific Ocean. Mexico, which
had become independent of Spain in 1821, lost its province of Texas to an independence
movement in 1836. As part of its expansion efforts, the U.S. annexed Texas in 1845. In the war
with Mexico that resulted, the U.S. was victorious and was awarded New Mexico, Arizona, and
California by the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, negotiated by Virginian Nicholas
Trist.

Basically, Manifest Destiny and Monroe Doctrine were accepted as the basis for US foreign
policy during much of the 19th and 20th centuries. Manifest Destiny, in its broadest
interpretation, meant that Americans were a chosen people ordained by God to create a model
society. More specifically, it referred to the territorial expansion of the United States from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. The idea of manifest Destiny was used to justify US annexation of Texas,
Oregon, New Mexico, and California and later, US involvement in Cuba, Alaska, Hawaii and the
Philippines
The Monroe Doctrine a cornerstone of early US foreign policy was enunciated by President
James Monroe in a public statement proclaiming three basic dicta: no further European
colonization in the New World, abstention of the United States from European political affairs,
and non-intervention of European governments in the governments of the Western Hemisphere.

Conclusion:
The Monroe Doctrine basically told foreign powers to stay out of the affairs of the Western
Hemisphere under a not-so-veiled threat. Manifest Destiny was the belief in America during the
19th century that we had a "God-given right" to settle from the Atlantic to Pacific. This also
included lands that were held by other European imperial powers.
These two ideas combined to annoy any foreign powers, especially those who still held colonies
on North America, since the leaders of the United States were telling them to get out or face
military force. This was a fairly laughable threat, however, as the United States military was still
very underdeveloped. The only practical thing that these ideas did was thoroughly annoy and
anger the Europeans.
The Monroe Doctrine was the idea that americans would not let Europe plunder the Western
Hemisphere. And the Manifest Destiny, was the idea that the US should eventually be a coast to
coast nation.

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