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Monroe Doctrine

newspaper with the portion of Pres. James Monroe's address to Congress on December 2, 1823, in which he presented what was to become known as the Monroe Doctrine

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The presidency of James Monroe and the famous Monroe Doctrine

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Date	December 2, 1823

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newspaper with the portion of Pres. James Monroe's address to Congress on December 2, 1823, in which he presented what was to become known as the Monroe Doctrine

cartoon ridiculing the inability of the United States to enforce the Monroe Doctrine during the Civil War

Jefferson note on the Monroe Doctrine

The presidency of James Monroe and the famous Monroe Doctrine

A portrait of U.S. President James Monroe, a white man with gray hair.

The Monroe Doctrine explained

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