USA HISTORY

President Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy is most closely associated with

(A) friendly relations with China after the Boxer Rebellion

(B) conservation of natural resources

(C) court actions to support business monopolies

(D) ** intervention in Latin American affairs

Concept note-1: -He brokered an agreement for an American-led canal through Panama, expanded American influence in Cuba, and negotiated a peace treaty between Russia and Japan. For this, Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. to negotiate an agreement. artificial waterway.

Concept note-2: -Roosevelt Corollary, foreign policy declaration by U.S. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in 1904–05 stating that, in cases of flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a Latin American country, the United States could intervene in that country’s internal affairs.

Concept note-3: -The most spectacular of Roosevelt’s foreign policy initiatives was the establishment of the Panama Canal. For years, U.S. naval leaders had dreamed of building a passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Central America.

Concept note-4: -A Big Stick Latin Americans did not look upon the corollary favorably. They resented U.S. involvement as Yankee imperialism, and animosity against their large neighbor to the North grew dramatically.