James Monroe, the author of the Monroe Doctrine, was the fifth President of the United States and one of the last presidents from Virginia; some historians even call him the last of the cocked hats. After two years at the College of William and Mary, Monroe went off to fight in the American Revolution. Monroe fought in the Battle of Trenton and was even one of the heroes of the battle. After earning the respect of George Washington, Monroe studied law under Thomas Jefferson, who was the governor of Virginia at the time. Monroe's ascension up the political ladder began in 1782, when he served on the Virginia legislature. After serving on the on the Virginia legislature, Monroe held the following positions: delegate to the Continental Congress, member of the Virginia ratifying convention, United States Senator, minister to France, governor of Virginia, one of the leaders of the Democratic-Republican party, secretary of war, and President of the United States of America. M!

as avoided, just as George Washington had suggested to presidents. Monroe took the advice of Adams and the alliance was not formed with Britain.

In 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt claimed, in what became known as the Roosevelt Corollary, that the United States could intervene in any Latin American nation guilty of internal or external misconduct. Roosevelt's statement was precipitated by Germany, Britain, and Italy, which were trying to force Venezuela to repay debts to those countries. Roosevelt involved the United States in settling the matter. The corollary was part of President Roosevelt's address to Congress that year. Roosevelt's corollary to the Monroe Doctrine set a precedent and therefore justified subsequent U.S. intervention in Caribbean states during the administrations of Presidents William Taft and Woodrow Wilson. By the 1920s Latin American countries were protesting U.S. involvement.

Thomas Jefferson on the Monroe Doctrine

The United States of America feared numerous of the absolute monarchs of Europe. The United States mostly feared the alliance between Russia, Austria, and Prussia. These three countries formed the Holy Alliance. These countries wanted to put an end to the system of representative government in all of Europe. This was bad news for the United States and the Americas, because if the Holy Alliance could eliminate representative governments in Europe, they could easily do the same to a young, weak country like the United States.

In the 1920s and the 1930s, the United States reduced the doctrine's scope by favoring action in concert with the other American republics. The Platt Amendment, which was part of the U.S. treaty with Cuba in 1903 and which provided for U.S. involvement in the rule of Cuba, was revoked in 1934. This emphasis on acting with other nations, or Pan-Americanism, continued during and after World War II with the Act of Chapultepec (1945) and the Rio Pact (1947), which declared that an attack on one American nation was an attack on all. The formation of the Organization of American States in 1948 was designed to achieve the aims of the Monroe Doctrine through Pan-Americanism. Subsequently, ho

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