February 10-11, 2015

Learning Targets:
I can give examples of how Americans helped the war effort from home
I can list at least 3 aspects of Wilson's Fourteen Points
I can describe the Treaty of Versailles and its weaknesses

Daily Question:
“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. In the war declared between those new Governments and Spain we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgment of the competent authorities of this Government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security....”
-Excerpt from the Monroe Doctrine from President James Monroe’s annual message to Congress, 1823

Based on the excerpt, which of the following statements best describes the change in American foreign policy in 1823?
A. The United States would become more active in European affairs.
B. The United States would consider any attempt of European interference in the Western Hemisphere as unfriendly toward the United States.
C. The United States intended to end European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere
D. The United States declared its intention to gain a world empire

Daily Agenda:

Daily Question

Quiz on 30 and 31

America at War lecture

Fourteen Points and Treaty of Versailles Worksheet