Monroe Doctrine

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Jackson’s Early Economic Success

President Andrew Jackson had good fortune as his presidency began with a wave of prosperity. See Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: Transformation of America, 1815-1848, 360.

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The Monroe Doctrine

President James Monroe has been known for centuries as the architect of a fundamental foreign policy doctrine: the Monroe Doctrine.