USA HISTORY

“Chronic wrongdoing ____ may in America as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctant, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing ____ to the exercise of an international police power."Which United States president most likely made this statement?

(A) William Howard Taft

(B) Abraham Lincoln

(C) William McKinley

(D) ** Theodore Roosevelt

Concept note-1: -The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States’ sphere of interest. President James Monroe’s 1823 annual message to Congress contained the Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.

Concept note-2: -While the Monroe Doctrine blocked further expansion of Europe in the Western Hemisphere, the Roosevelt Corollary went one step further. Should any Latin American nation engage in “chronic wrongdoing, ” a phrase that included large debts or civil unrest, the United States military would intervene.