Monroe Doctrine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...principle of American foreign policy enunciated in...northwest coast of North America. In this quarrel, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams expressed...colonial status the Latin American states that had recently gained...with the newly formed states, supported Latin American independence. The United States had just recognized...accepted. Secretary of State Adams dissented. He...exact a pledge from the United States not to attempt to acquire...territory in Spanish America. Meanwhile, Canning...Alliance intervene in Latin America), by which...announced that the United States would not interfere...a dual principle of foreign policy (no colonization...Yucatan. The strained relations with Great Britain...