Given this quote and the actions of roosevelt's presidency, it is most likely that in the early 1900s the united states

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Given this quote and the actions of Roosevelt's presidency, it is MOST likely that in the early 1900s the United States expanded its military in hopes of becoming a world power.

After the Venezuelan incidents in 1902, US President Theodore Roosevelt referred to the corollary when addressing Congress in 1904. Commonly known as the Roosevelt Corollary, the Corollary affirms that the United States will intervene if Europeans nations still try to mess with Latin American countries. Europe does not need to intervene in Latin American affairs, the US would be handling those issues. President Roosevelt knew that he had to build a better navy to earn the respect of European nations and establish the US as a world power.

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