POLC91H3 Lecture 7: Lecture 7.docx
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2- no outside power (european) had the right to impose its political system. Includes readings for up to this week, and everything covered up to and including today. 10 q on lectures and 10 q"s on readings. Us has historically intervened in the region in many cases. This goes back to the years of la independence. Became interested in la for 2 reasons; business- trade and investment-and the desire for territory. Monroe doctrine 1823; said 2 things; 1- the americas could not be colonized by any european power, us didn"t like british and french having colonies there on any of the countries of the region. This established the americas as the preserve of la, what went on in americas was just as imp"t as what was going on domestically in us. Manifest destiny 1845; doctrine that expressed the belief that the us was destined by god to fill up the entire territory of the americas.