Name______________________________________________________Period________
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Directions: Each picture in this packet represents the Monroe Doctrine. Some are maps, some are
political cartoons, and some are pictures. You are to examine each picture and answer each picture’s
questions in your notebook.
1.)
1.) What is this a picture of?
2.) List five countries that you see in this picture.
3.) What do this tell you about who or what the Monroe Doctrine might involve?
2.)
1.) What do you notice in this political cartoon?
2.) What does the sign at the bottom-right say?
3.) What is surrounding North and South America? What could this mean?
4.) What can this cartoon tell you about the Monroe Doctrine?
3.)
1.) What do you notice in this cartoon?
2.) What is the man in the cartoon doing?
3.) Look at his shirt and his pants…who might this man be?
4.)
1.) What is Uncle Sam doing in this cartoon?
2.) What do you think this might mean?
3.) Using information from the other cartoons, who might the two people on the left be?
5.)
ISOLATIONISM
VS.
INVOLVEMENT
1.) Based on the pictures so far, which word do you think the Monroe Doctrine follows? Why?
6.)
1.) What do you see in this picture?
2.) What do you think the “Uncle Sam Hemisphere” means?
7.)
1.) What does this picture tell you about what the Monroe Doctrine might be?
2.) Why do you think Uncle Sam’s hat placed on South America?
8.)
1.) What do you see in this picture?
2.) What could the brick wall in the center of the Earth mean?
FINAL PREDICTION
Based on the eight pictures that are here, make a final prediction about what the Monroe Doctrine
was. Include things like (1) the purpose of the doctrine, (2) who is targeted by the doctrine, (3) the
area of the world it is aimed at, and (4) who might benefit from the Monroe Doctrine. There is no
wrong answer unless you do not try. Use the pictures to form your final prediction!!