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The Monroe Doctrine

In October 1823, President Monroe was concerned about Spain reclaiming sovereignty in the Western Hemisphere. He asked former presidents Jefferson and Madison for advice. They told Monroe to join forces with Britain. However, Monroe’s secretary of state, John Quincy Adams (who would later succeed Monroe as president), had another idea. Adams thought the United States should go it alone.

Monroe followed Adams’s advice and laid out an independent course for the United States, declaring four major points in his December 2, 1823, address to Congress. He made four basic statements:

The United States would not get involved in European affairs.
The United States would not interfere with existing European colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
No other nation could form a new colony in the Western Hemisphere.
If a European nation tried to control or interfere with a nation in the Western Hemisphere, the United States would view it as a hostile act against this nation. In his Monroe Doctrine, he said that the peoples of the West “are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.”

Monroe’s declaration of policy toward Europe did not become known as the Monroe Doctrine until about 30 years after it was proclaimed. In 1823, the US was not powerful enough to enforce Monroe’s proclamation. Outside the United States, the “doctrine” went mostly unnoticed.

The United States would not get involved in European affairs.
It is impossible that the allied powers (Europe) should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can any one believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord..It is still the true policy of the United States to leave the parties to themselves, in the hope that other powers will pursue the same course…

According to Monroe, will the United States interfere with South American countries once they gain independence?