James Monroe Administration

  • Monroe Elected

  • Rush Bagot Treaty

    Limited navy on Great Lakes and ensured peace between US and Canada
  • Anglo-American Convention

    Established 49th parallel (Canada/US border) and allowed joint GB and US occupation of Oregon
  • Adams-Onis Treaty

    US gained Florida and established a dividing line
    Gave up Spanish claims to Oregon and Washington (helped US expansion)
  • Panic of 1819

    economic depression that ended post-war boom
    Congress dealt with it, but Madison did little
  • Missouri Compromise

    MO was a slave state, ME was a free state, LA was divided
  • Monroe Doctrine

    opposed any further European colonization
    mutual noninterference