The documented that upheld George Washington's policy of the United States not getting entangled in internal European Affairs and existing European Colonies for many years was Known as the Monroe Doctrine. The intent and impact of the Monroe Doctrine was to speerate the spheres of influences between the old world (Europe) and the New world ( America).
<span>Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines all became U.S. possessions as a result of the "Spanish-American War", since these were all help previously by the Spanish. </span>
