How did the Monroe Doctrine affect foreign policy?
The Monroe Doctrine is simply a “policy” statement made by President James Monroe in 1823 that essentially warned Europe against any further colonization in the Westrn Hemisphere. We would stay on our side of the Atlantic and they should stay on theirs.This was a particularly opportune time since Spain’s once great empire in this hemisphere was crumbling and she was on here way out anyway. It implied military force against any who attempted incursion into the area of the world that the United States considered it’s domain. Later Teddy Roosevelt would issue his Corrollary to the Monroe Doctrine that will make the threat of force more implicit. The United States would eventually throw the last remnants of the Spanish Empire out of the hemisphere in 1898 in a 100 day conflict known as the Spanish-American War. The Monroe Doctrine has been called upon many times in American history to justify American actions in South and Central America. The threat to America’s security in the region has
