In my opinion, I don’t think it was a threat
George washington was the first president of the United States
It's objective was to free recently independent colonies of Latin America from the hands of European intervention. Also to avoid any condition which could possibly make the New World an arena of war for the Old World powers, so the United states could exercise it's own influence without interruption.
A major cause of the Enlightenment was a renewed interest in nobility the Scientific Revolution
<span>The distance of the colonies from Great Britain made colonial self-government convenient</span>
