After the Revolutionary War, the United States took great lengths to establish itself. The Founders of the country argued for a strong central government, presidents took charge of their constituents’ affairs, and patriotism had a strong presence. However, the United States’ would have difficulty maintaining its relationships with other world powers because the country itself was frail, possessed a series of discourses domestically and internationally, and especially had complex relationships with European powers; thus complicating how America lived out in the early nineteenth century. A country is unable to maintain relationships well with other world powers until it is able to manage itself. Under the Articles of Confederation, the United
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The Monroe Doctrine was a declaration that expressed three principles: the first principle established the opposition of potential colonization efforts from any European power — primarily directed towards France, Spain, and Russia. The second principle declared that the United States would abstain from being involved in future European wars. The third principle warned the European powers to abstain from involving themselves with the newly independent countries that formed in Latin America. After recent conflict between France and Great Britain, the thought of another European power causing conflict was a legitimate and daunting thought that instilled the fear that Spain would try and usurp power in Latin America after the multitude of wars for independence that occurred in the region between 1810 and 1822. The doctrine was established under more legitimate timing as the country could not afford more conflict with international power or further sever relations with another country. The doctrine was also a declaration of neutrality and independence from the Eastern Hemisphere in that President John Adams basically spoke for the Latin American states and banned recolonization of the states and demanded that the United States remain abstinent from further conflict. Not only was this a safe move for the nation, but the Monroe Doctrine was firm damage control for American international relations as it asserted itself promptly and with full clarity — a definite upgrade from George Washington’s allusion in his Farewell
The Monroe Doctrine was a declaration that expressed three principles: the first principle established the opposition of potential colonization efforts from any European power — primarily directed towards France, Spain, and Russia. The second principle declared that the United States would abstain from being involved in future European wars. The third principle warned the European powers to abstain from involving themselves with the newly independent countries that formed in Latin America. After recent conflict between France and Great Britain, the thought of another European power causing conflict was a legitimate and daunting thought that instilled the fear that Spain would try and usurp power in Latin America after the multitude of wars for independence that occurred in the region between 1810 and 1822. The doctrine was established under more legitimate timing as the country could not afford more conflict with international power or further sever relations with another country. The doctrine was also a declaration of neutrality and independence from the Eastern Hemisphere in that President John Adams basically spoke for the Latin American states and banned recolonization of the states and demanded that the United States remain abstinent from further conflict. Not only was this a safe move for the nation, but the Monroe Doctrine was firm damage control for American international relations as it asserted itself promptly and with full clarity — a definite upgrade from George Washington’s allusion in his Farewell