Title: Monrovia
Content: of Liberia and the American Colonization Society. Along with Washington, D.C., it is one of two national capitals to be named after a U.S. President. In 1816, with the aim of establishing a self-sufficient colony for emancipated American slaves, something that had already been accomplished in Freetown, the first settlers arrived in Africa from the United States, under the auspices of the American Colonization Society. They landed at Sherbro Island in present-day Sierra Leone. Many settlers died in the landing. On January 7, 1822, a second ship rescued the settlers and took them to Cape Mesurado, establishing the settlement of

Title: Monrovia
Content: "Christopolis". In 1824, the city was renamed "Monrovia" after James Monroe, then President of the United States, who was a prominent supporter of the colony in sending freed Black slaves and ex-Caribbean slaves from the United States of America and Caribbean islands to Liberia and who saw it as preferable to emancipation in America. In 1845, Monrovia was the site of the constitutional convention held by the American Colonization Society which drafted the constitution that would two years later be the constitution of an independent and sovereign Republic of Liberia. At the beginning of the 20th century, Monrovia was divided

Title: Presidency of James Monroe
Content: establish a colony in West Africa, which would be adjacent to Sierra Leone, another colony that had been established for free blacks. The new colony was named Liberia, and Liberia's capital took the name of Monrovia in honor of President Monroe. By the 1860s, over ten thousand African Americans had migrated to Liberia. Though initially intended to be a permanent U.S. colony, Liberia would declare independence in 1847. Monroe took a close interest in the Western American frontier, which was overseen by Secretary of War Calhoun. Calhoun organized an expedition to the Yellowstone River to extend American influence in and

Title: Linconia
Content: of Liberia's capital Monrovia was derived from the name of the fifth President of the United States James Monroe. Lincoln desired to return former slaves to Africa or other tropical regions, with their consent and the accord of the authorities of the country where they were to be settled. He repeated his support for colonization numerous times, including during the American Civil War. By 1862, Lincoln had decided that Chiriquí Province in Panama would be an ideal location to start an African-American colony. In August of that year, he invited a group of prominent African-Americans to the White House to

Title: Edward James Roye
Content: a British ship in Monrovia harbor. The portrait of President Roye in the gallery of the Presidential Mansion in Monrovia notes his date of death as February 11, 1872. Edward James Roye Edward James Roye (February 3, 1815 – February 11, 1872) served as the fifth President of Liberia from 1870 to his overthrow in 1871 and subsequent violent death. He had previously served as the 4th Chief Justice of Liberia from 1865 until 1868. He was the first member of Liberia's True Whig Party to serve as President. Born in 1815 in Newark, Ohio, Roye was a descendant of

Question: After which American President is the capital of Liberia named?
Answer: James Monroe