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Monroe Doctrine A single-page, aged newspaper broadside titled Mad-River Courant Extra with three columns of dense printed text, featuring President James Monroe's message. cartoon ridiculing the inability of the United States to enforce the Monroe Doctrine during the Civil War
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Monroe Doctrine The text of U.S. Pres. James Monroe's 1823 annual message to Congress, which outlined the Monroe Doctrine.

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Monroe Doctrine, (December 2, 1823), cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy enunciated by Pres. James Monroe in his annual message to Congress. Declaring that the Old World and New World had different systems and must remain distinct spheres, Monroe made four basic points: (1) the United States would not interfere in the internal affairs of or the wars between European powers; (2) the United States recognized and would not interfere with existing colonies and dependencies in...

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