The White League, also known as the White Man's League was a white paramilitary organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to kick Republicans out of office and intimidate freedmen from voting and politically organizing. Affiliated with the Democratic Party, its first chapter was formed in Grant Parish, Louisiana and neighboring parishes, made up of many of the Confederate veterans who had participated in the Colfax massacre in April 1873. Chapters were soon founded in New Orleans and other areas of the state The Red Shirts was a similar group that formed chapters in Mississippi and the Carolinas. Active during the later years of Reconstruction, these paramilitary groups were described as "the military arm of the Democratic Party." Through violence and intimidation of blacks and allied whites, their members suppressed Republican voting and contributed to the Democrats' taking control of the Louisiana Legislature in 1876 (and to Democratic control in other southern states).After white Democrats regained control of the state legislature in 1876, members of the White Leagues were absorbed into the state militias and the National Guard.
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The Monroe Doctrine was A United States policy opposing European interference in America. This policy viewed any European effort to gain control back over the newly independent countries in America as "the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States." It was issued in 1823 under the presidency of James Monroe, in a moment that most Spain and Portugal colonies in AMerica were fighting for their independence or trying to build independent nations.
The original aim of this policy was to prevent the New World to become a battle field for the Old World powers, so the United States could exert its own influence undisturbed.
The Venezuela crisis was a perfect scenario to apply the Monroe Doctrine, because European powers were using military force to press an American country to pay its debt. This could have been seen as "an unfriendly disposition toward the United States". What Roosevelt did was add the Roosevelt corollary to the Doctrine, which asserted the right of the United States to intervene in Latin America in cases of "flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a Latin American Nation" to preempt intervention by European creditors.
This changed the meaning of the Doctrine , which went from a policy of defending the American countries' independence to a policy that allowed the U.S. military interference in Latin America when it failed to pay European or U.S debtors from then on.
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty between the nations of Japan, the United States, France, Austria-Hungary, Germany and Britain after World War I. The treaty was made in 1919.
