From the beginning of the nineteenth century, the credo of Manifest Destiny:
The Monroe doctrine of 1823 also prompted Washington to consider Latin America as its reserved domain from which any European actor must be excluded. The concept of the American Empire was popularized for the first time in the media under the presidency of James K. Polk, at the time of the outbreak of the Mexican American War.
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