The Monroe Doctrine- A Radical Change in American Foreign Policy. By Tom Burnett and Olek Peraire. A political cartoon depicting the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine was proclaimed as a result of a European threat to North America. The principles expressed in the Monroe Doctrine not only became long-standing principles in American foreign policy, but also changed the focus of American foreign policy from Europe to Westward Expansion.

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The idea of settling the American coastline was put into action when Queen Elizabeth granted a charter for Roanoke Colony to Sir Walter Raleigh. Yet due to poor relations with the natives, negative geographical timing, and ineffective connections with the mother country from foreign wars, the colonists of this first-ever English American settlement were doomed for failure. A map of the Roanoke area by John White.