sentences:  While not specifically the Monroe Doctrine, but this was extended to the Latin American colonies by the Monroe Doctrine.But Hamilton, writing in the "Federalist Papers", was already wanting to establish America as a world power and hoped that America would suddenly become strong enough to keep the European powers outside of the Americas, despite the fact that the European countries controlled much more of the Americas than the U.S. itself.Hamilton expected that the United States would become the dominant power in the New World and would, in the future, act as an intermediary between the European powers and any new countries blossoming near the U.S.