John Quincy Adams was an ardent expansionist. What actions did he support to help the United States become the “first and mightiest nation in the world”?
While James Monroe’s secretary of state he drafted part of the Monroe Doctrine which “would oppose any further efforts at colonization by European powers in the Americas” (Foner 386) This would ensure that the U.S would not get involved in any further conflicts with European powers whilst expanding westward as well as establishing diplomatic relations with the newly independent states in the Americas leading to an increase in trade and market value, making the U.S stronger economically and thus stronger globally. As “Latin America was a major market for British Goods, and British citizens …show more content…
As such he had to create a compromise, the Missouri Compromise. The compromise ensured a balance between free states and slave states by admitting Maine, a state which prohibited slavery to the union, and slavery in any purchase north of Missouri’s southern boundary in all remaining territory in the Louisiana Purchase would be prohibited, but Missouri would be able to create their own state constitution. Nullification was over the tariff of 1828, a tariff that, “raised taxes on imported manufactured goods made of wool as well as on raw materials like iron.” (Foner 396) This met vehement opposition in the south as the legislatures in the south believed it would merely raise the prices of the goods imported from the north, serving only northerners. Thus, legislatures in the south wanted to nullify the tariff, not follow it. Southerners felt that if they continued to allow the federal government to act with such authority, they would abolish slavery. Nullification was eventually rescinded when Henry Clay created a new tariff, reducing the duties of the
While James Monroe’s secretary of state he drafted part of the Monroe Doctrine which “would oppose any further efforts at colonization by European powers in the Americas” (Foner 386) This would ensure that the U.S would not get involved in any further conflicts with European powers whilst expanding westward as well as establishing diplomatic relations with the newly independent states in the Americas leading to an increase in trade and market value, making the U.S stronger economically and thus stronger globally. As “Latin America was a major market for British Goods, and British citizens …show more content…
As such he had to create a compromise, the Missouri Compromise. The compromise ensured a balance between free states and slave states by admitting Maine, a state which prohibited slavery to the union, and slavery in any purchase north of Missouri’s southern boundary in all remaining territory in the Louisiana Purchase would be prohibited, but Missouri would be able to create their own state constitution. Nullification was over the tariff of 1828, a tariff that, “raised taxes on imported manufactured goods made of wool as well as on raw materials like iron.” (Foner 396) This met vehement opposition in the south as the legislatures in the south believed it would merely raise the prices of the goods imported from the north, serving only northerners. Thus, legislatures in the south wanted to nullify the tariff, not follow it. Southerners felt that if they continued to allow the federal government to act with such authority, they would abolish slavery. Nullification was eventually rescinded when Henry Clay created a new tariff, reducing the duties of the