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Article: Monroe Doctrine
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MONROE DOCTRINE
MONROE DOCTRINE.
Four years after the ratification of the Adams-On
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s Transcontinental Treaty, President James Monroe announced the Monroe Doctrine in a message to Congress in December 1823. While few countries paid much attention to its pronouncement, the doctrine captured the American belief that the New and Old Worlds greatly differed and that the United States had a special role to play. It presaged Manifest Destiny, and, as the years passed, the Monroe Doctrine increasingly became a tenet of American foreign policy, although its international acceptance and significance is still debated.
In the aftermath of the French Revolution (1787
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1799) and the ...