Can you provide the options?
Answer: The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.
Union soldiers were fighting for the freedom of slaves and reuniting the states. Confederate soldiers fought for protecting the confederacy. Yes, it did change over the war.
The answer to the question is D
To punish the colonists for their disobedience
