The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to take control of any .... The reaction in Latin America to the Monroe Doctrine was generally favorable but in some occasions suspicious.
T<span>he </span>Bureau<span> of Refugees, </span>Freedmen<span>, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the </span>Freedmen's Bureau<span>, was a U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid </span>freedmen<span> (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States, which attempted to change society in the former Confederacy .</span>