1, 2, and 3). James Monroe understood that the United States and other western countries don’t want Europe to go take them over, resulting in the Monroe Doctrine taking place to protect them from European colonization. According to “James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States (1817-1825) and the last President of the Founding Fathers” written by the United States official Government, The White House, Reported by the White House, Monroe did have much obliged help from his secretary of state, John Quinecy Adams who advised him that it “would be more candid. to avow our principles explicitly to Russia and France, than to come in as a cock-boat in the wake of the British man-of-war. the American continents,” he stated, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European Power” (Para.