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At pan american conference, united Latin american countries to trade with the US;
supported cubas rebellion against spain, leading to spanish-american war; victory over spain gave US control over cuba, puerto rico;
built panama canal;
Issued the Roosevelt corollary stating that the US would intervene in Latin america to maintain stability.

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We cannot sit huddled within our own borders and avow ourselves merely an assemblage of well-to-do hucksters who care nothing for what happens beyond. Such a policy would defeat even its own end; for as the nations grow to have ever wider and wider interests, and are brought into closer and closer contact, if we are to hold our own in the struggle for naval and commercial supremacy, we must build up our Dower without our own borders

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the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.

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a corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country.

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a treaty signed by the United Statesand Great Britain on 18 November 1901, as a legal preliminary to the U.S. building the Panama Canal.