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Originally Posted by soopaman2
You are referring to Manifest Destiny?
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No.
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I believe that only applied to continental US (what we call the lower 48)
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You believe wrongly. The paper specifically said the the US would step in to challenge any new European colonization anywhere in the Western Hemispher.
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at that time France, Spain and England held claims in the N American new world.
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Yes they did, and this part of the Wiki article answered my question:
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Doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies...
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An excuse to whack indians. But I digress.
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And you digress in a bad direction. The Monroe Doctrine had nothing to do with the indians either.