Adoption Of The Monroe Doctrine: Aggression To The United States

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The Monroe Doctrine was a statement and document from President Monroe stating that any further colonization or attempt thereof by European Nations (aside of the colonies they already hold and established) would be seen as threat and act of aggression to the United States in that we now protected the realm of the New World along with the South Americans, and has long been held as one of the best forms of Foreign Policy ever created as it was isolationist in external conflict (war in the Old World), but open to commerce and trade among nations. The occasion and circumstances for the adoption of the Monroe Doctrine were the growing uneasiness toward the newfound European Allies and the constant conflict within Europe, and the state of the Latin

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