POLS 1602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Theodore Roosevelt, Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine
28 Sep 2016
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Civil war congress played a greater role. The rest of the 19th century presidents were insignificant and irrelevant: ulysses s. grant. By far the most corrupt administration in american. Why were you such a bad president? . Failures have been errors of judgement not intent : james monroe. Wrote the monroe doctrine but that didn"t really even say anything it was just a suggestion for european powers to stop colonizing the western hemisphere. The european countries were bankrupt and were done with the usa. The claim did nothing because they stayed away for money reasons not because of the usa. The panic of 1819 the first great depression. Missouri compromise of 1820-he wasn"t even in the room: james buchanan. Decline begins at the turn of the 20th century. Two primary factors: foreign policy creates energetic, charismatic and powerful presidents. We didn"t need foreign policy because we had the ocean to protect us.
