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Perhaps the most important issue behind the Monroe Doctrine was a fear that Spain would reassert its claims on parts of Latin America that had become independent. The idea of opposing this had been suggested to the Americans by the British government. But the immediate cause was statements by the Russian government asserting its claims on the territory of Alaska and the ocean approaches to it, to a distance of a hundred miles.

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