AP World History Exam Prep

Answer - A - During the 1800s and early 1900s, the United States intervened politically and economically in the affairs of the Latin American region.

Key Takeaway: When the Monroe Doctrine was passed in 1823, it prohibited European countries from interfering in the Western Hemisphere, thus allowing the United States to bring Latin America under its sphere of influence. Until the early 1900s, the United States intervened politically and economically in the affairs of the region until it later became a colonizing power in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Cuba, among other places.