President Roosevelt intervened in the Dominican republic his intentions were
noble. He was just following the American public's sentiments of the time.
The Roosevelt Corollary this was Theodore Roosevelt's "amendment" to the
Monroe Doctrine. In 1904, the government of the Dominican Republic was
bankrupt, and Roosevelt feared that foreign nations, especially Germany, might
intervene forcibly to collect their debts. To keep other powers out, Roosevelt
issued his corollary: "Chronic wrongdoing ... may in America, as elsewhere,
ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation," he announced
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