James Monroe Patriot and President, written by Harriet Clement Marble an author who has published stores and poetry in several magazines depicts the life of James Monroe from birth to death in a chronological order. The book was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons New York in 1970. Harriet Marble does an excellent job of depicting and portraying Monroe’s life from, “Student to Soldier” to his most impactful action on the world, The Monroe Doctrine. This book is contains several dozen sources and proves itself to be extremely credible.
Born April 28, 1758 in Westmoreland Country, Virginia and dying on July 4th, 1831 the same date as Thomas Jefferson and John Adams five years later, James Monroe would eventually become one of the most influential …show more content…
Constitution that focused on more rights for the state. In 1790 Monroe represented Virginia in the senate. With his introduction to politics Monroe was made minister to France in 1794, by George Washing, but with the controversial Jay’s Treaty that hoped to avert war with Great Britain, Monroe was released as minister in 1796. Following this political position Monroe was then the Governor of Virginia in 1799. Throughout Monroe’s life he held many political parties, and was mostly successful in each position. With Monroe’s past interactions with France, Thomas Jefferson requested that Monroe go to France and negotiate the purchasing the port of New Orleans. While there the concept of purchasing the Louisiana territory was brought up for $15 million dollars from Napoleon Bonaparte. This purchase later occurred which doubled the size of the United States in 1803. Monroe’s early political career was leading America in the right direction of gaining confidence and playing a greater role in the future of the world and its newly formed world …show more content…
Monroe was aware that the U.S was gaining dominance and wanted the world to respect the U.S. In the Doctrine Monroe declared that European colonization halt and that any act in the American continents would be taken as an act of aggression. This idea was proposed at the seventh annual State of The Union Address to congress. The Monroe Doctrine would stand for decades with only slight variations. This Doctrine was so impactful that even far into the future during the Cold War this ideology was applied to the U.S. during the Cuban Revolution. This Doctrine allowed the U.S. to progress without interruption of European countries, and progressed America to becoming the world super power it is
Born April 28, 1758 in Westmoreland Country, Virginia and dying on July 4th, 1831 the same date as Thomas Jefferson and John Adams five years later, James Monroe would eventually become one of the most influential …show more content…
Constitution that focused on more rights for the state. In 1790 Monroe represented Virginia in the senate. With his introduction to politics Monroe was made minister to France in 1794, by George Washing, but with the controversial Jay’s Treaty that hoped to avert war with Great Britain, Monroe was released as minister in 1796. Following this political position Monroe was then the Governor of Virginia in 1799. Throughout Monroe’s life he held many political parties, and was mostly successful in each position. With Monroe’s past interactions with France, Thomas Jefferson requested that Monroe go to France and negotiate the purchasing the port of New Orleans. While there the concept of purchasing the Louisiana territory was brought up for $15 million dollars from Napoleon Bonaparte. This purchase later occurred which doubled the size of the United States in 1803. Monroe’s early political career was leading America in the right direction of gaining confidence and playing a greater role in the future of the world and its newly formed world …show more content…
Monroe was aware that the U.S was gaining dominance and wanted the world to respect the U.S. In the Doctrine Monroe declared that European colonization halt and that any act in the American continents would be taken as an act of aggression. This idea was proposed at the seventh annual State of The Union Address to congress. The Monroe Doctrine would stand for decades with only slight variations. This Doctrine was so impactful that even far into the future during the Cold War this ideology was applied to the U.S. during the Cuban Revolution. This Doctrine allowed the U.S. to progress without interruption of European countries, and progressed America to becoming the world super power it is