Person1758 – 1831
James Monroe
5th US president (1817–1825) who in 1823 issued the Monroe Doctrine, declaring that Europe and the Americas should not interfere in each other’s affairs
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President Monroe declared that Europe should not interfere in the Americas and that the United States would stay out of European affairs. It protected Latin American independence and became a principle of US foreign policy.
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- Revolutions and Nation-States1776 – 1871
From the Declaration of Independence to the German Empire — a century in which liberalism and nationalism toppled the old order in Europe and the Americas and built nation-states