USA HISTORY

The Spanish-American War resulted from an attempt to enforce the principles expressed by which of these?

(A) The Declaration of Independence

(B) Washington’s Farewell Address

(C) The Treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo

(D) ** The Monroe Doctrine

Concept note-1: -The Spanish-American War resulted from an attempt to enforce the principles expressed by which of these? The United States wanted to enforce the principles of the Monroe Doctrine. The Spanish-American War was precipitated by U.S. opposition to reports of Spanish colonial brutality in Cuba.

Concept note-2: -The United States invoked the Monroe Doctrine to defend its increasingly imperialistic role in the Americas in the mid-19th century, but it was not until the Spanish-American War in 1898 that the United States declared war against a European power over its interference in the American hemisphere.

Concept note-3: -The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States’ sphere of interest. President James Monroe’s 1823 annual message to Congress contained the Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.

Concept note-4: -John Quincy Adams played a crucial role in formulating the Monroe Doctrine when he was Monroe’s Secretary of State.