What Was the Reason for Issuing the Monroe Doctrine?​

Multiple Choice

What was the reason for issuing the Monroe Doctrine?​

A) ​To stop competing cotton interests in Latin America.
B) ​To use the principal of Manifest Destiny to expand into South America.
C) ​To prevent further European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
D) ​To allow the US to use newly independent Latin American countries for raw materials in industrialization.
E) ​To allow American bounty hunters to have jurisdiction in Latin America over runaway slaves.