Four Main Concepts

a. The United States would not get involved in European affairs.

b. The United States would not interfere with existing European colonies in the Western Hemisphere.

c. No other nation would form a new colony in the Western Hemisphere.

d. If a European nation tried to control or interfere with a nation in the Western Hemisphere, the United States would view it as a hostile act against the nation.

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