“If there be a people on earth whose more especial duty it is to be at all times prepared to defend the rights with which they are blessed, and to surpass all others in sustaining the necessary burthens, and in submitting to sacrifices to make such preparations of these states,” said James Monroe, author of “The Monroe Doctrine.” The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy statement set in 1823. On December 2, 1823, President James Monroe used his speech to state the efforts by European nations to colonize land in North or South America, would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. The Doctrine was to show that the United States was the only country that could influence such political matters. Further, several countries
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In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.” In the mid 19th century the United States summoned the Monroe Doctrine to protect its imperialistic role in the Americas, it wasn’t until the Spanish-American War in 1898 that the United States announced war against European power. The segregation position of the Monroe Doctrine was also a milestone of U.S. foreign policy in the 19th century, and it took the two world wars of the 20th century to draw a unwilling America into it new role as major global power. The Monroe Doctrine was expanded under President Grant and his successors. In the Western Hemisphere there was belief that no territory could be transferred from one European power to another. As it grew, the Monroe Doctrine came to join, not only with the elimination of European powers from the Americas, but also with the possible reach of U.S. control in the
In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.” In the mid 19th century the United States summoned the Monroe Doctrine to protect its imperialistic role in the Americas, it wasn’t until the Spanish-American War in 1898 that the United States announced war against European power. The segregation position of the Monroe Doctrine was also a milestone of U.S. foreign policy in the 19th century, and it took the two world wars of the 20th century to draw a unwilling America into it new role as major global power. The Monroe Doctrine was expanded under President Grant and his successors. In the Western Hemisphere there was belief that no territory could be transferred from one European power to another. As it grew, the Monroe Doctrine came to join, not only with the elimination of European powers from the Americas, but also with the possible reach of U.S. control in the