The options of the question are:
a) to ensure that only France and England would have interests in Panama
b) to divide North Africa between the US and Spain for colonizing
c) to protect the Panama Canal and regional interests in Latin America from European involvement
d) to encourage European powers to help control uprisings in Central and South America
The correct answer is c) to protect the Panama Canal and regional interests in Latin America from European involvement.
Theodore Roosevelt issued the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine to protect the Panama Canal and regional interests in Latin America from European involvement.
The Roosevelt Corollary is from December 1904. It says that the U. S. “would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors”. Roosevelt did not want that any European country messed with the rights of the U.S. in the region. Roosevelt was in favor to stop foreign aggression that could cause detriment to the nations in American.
Stemming from the corollary the U. S. used military force to pacify nations in conflict. In the end, the corollary did not affect much the relationships with the Western Hemisphere and Europe, but it justified the intervention in countries like Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua.
