According to Eric Foner in his book Give Me Libery!, John Quincy Adams was an ardent expansionist and supported to help the United States become the ‘first and mightiest nation in the world’. He first served as James Monroe’s secretary of state before he became president, and dedicated to combining the power of the national government at home and abroad. His biggest fear was that Spain would try to regain its Latin American colonies. In 1823, he drafted a section of the president’s annual message to Congress that became known as the Monroe Doctrine which expressed three principles. The first one being the United States would oppose any further efforts at colonization by European powers in the Americas. The second one was the United States would