APUSH - Spiconardi

  To avoid potential conflict in the Great Lakes, the U.S. and Britain reached a demilitarization agreement  Limited the number of vessels and cannons each country could have on the Great Lakes  Outcome  Created the world’s then longest demilitarized border (5,527 miles)  Limited the threat of potential naval threats Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)

  A treaty was signed to resolve fishing disputes and boundary disputes  Determined the 49 th parallel would be northern most extent of the Louisiana territory  Oregon Country would be jointly occupied by the United States and Britain  U.S. regained fishing rights in Newfoundland The Convention of 1818

  Georgia and Alabama planters wanted Florida  Why?  Florida was a refuge for fugitive slaves  Feared the hostile Seminole Indians  In 1818, Andrew Jackson leads troops into Florida  He executed two British traders  Killed numerous Indians  Attacked Spanish forts  Spain realizes it cannot defend Florida and cedes Florid to the U.S. under the treaty Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)

  After the Napoleonic Wars, the U.S. feared European involvement in the New World  Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams, developed the following policy: Monroe Doctrine 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. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.

  Reactions?  Latin America?  Britain?  Other European nations? Monroe Doctrine

 Missouri Compromise (1820)