- Under his 2 terms as President, Monroe accomplished a lot
- As a diplomat he helped complete the Louisiana Purchase
- Mississippi, Illinois, Alabam, , Maine, Missouri join the US
- Monroe orders the capture of Southern Florida, from Seminole and Spanish control
- The Anglo-American Convention which concludes the War of 1812 officially
- The Transcontinental Treaty which officially gave the rights of the Oregon and Florida territories to the US, expanding the US border to the Pacific Ocean
- Monroe signs the Military Establishment Act, to reduce the Army's manpower by 40 percent to 6,126 men. The move reflects a shift in national priorities toward commerce and negotiation.
- Monroe signs the Tariff of 1824 into law, implementing protectionist measures in support of local manufactures and goods. Complaints arise in the South with cotton-growers fearful of British retaliation for the increase in price.
- He forces the Cherokee tribe to move south of the Mississippi
- President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise. The Compromise was made up of three parts: it admitted Maine, part of northern Massachusetts, as a free state; it admitted Missouri as a slave state; and it henceforth restricted slavery to territories south of the latitude 36º30' north.
- The Monroe Doctrine was put into place
- 1) The United States would not get involved in European affairs. 2) The United States would not interfere with existing European colonies in the Western Hemisphere. 3) No other nation could form a new colony in the Western Hemisphere. 4) If a European nation tried to control or interfere with a nation in the Western Hemisphere, the United States would view it as a hostile act against this nation.
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