Various Native American tribes inhabited North America, but they did not claim possession of the land, since they believed it belongs to everybody. So, the colonists were really the first people to "claim" the land.
Further European colonization of the Americas was prohibited.
President Monroe set out to stop European interferences in the Western Hemisphere by issuing an Executive order. The Executive order was called the Monroe Doctrine, which stopped Europe from colonizing or interfering with any country in the Americas.
small, relatively isolated rural communities.
Portugal and Spain
The Monroe Doctrine affected south, central America. Also it made it so any European nations could not settle in the Americas but European immigrants could move to the Americas.
Portugal!
Liberia was the only country in West Africa to not be colonized by a European Power as it already had a "legitimate" Western-style government.
Spain was the largest country in Western Europe from 1580-1640, as they controlled all of the Iberian peninsula at this time. However, from 1640 until today, France has been the largest country in Western Europe.
Further European colonization of the Americas was prohibited.
Austria is a country that is in the centre of Europe and would be considered as a western European country.
No. Belgium is a western European country, but it is a member of the European Union.
President Monroe set out to stop European interferences in the Western Hemisphere by issuing an Executive order. The Executive order was called the Monroe Doctrine, which stopped Europe from colonizing or interfering with any country in the Americas.
The Americas, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Western Antarctica, and a few African and European nations.
France?
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European influence spread to the Western Hemisphere
Most people hold that Italy is in Western Europe if Europe is strictly divided between Western Europe and Eastern Europe. However, if Europe is divided more regionally, then Italy quickly becomes part of Southern Europe. Western Europe than shrinks to France, Monaco, Switzerland, the UK, and Ireland. (Germany and Benelux are sometimes included if Northern Europe is also split off).