Answer:
President Roosevelt's foreign policy was called "big stick" diplomacy.
Explanation:
The Big Stick refers to the style of diplomacy used by President Theodore Roosevelt, as a corollary of the Monroe Doctrine, according to which the United States should exercise its foreign policy as a way of stopping European interventions in the American continent. In this way the US would take the lead within the continent.
The intentions of this diplomacy were to protect the economic interests of the United States in Latin America. The ideology of the Big Stick led to the expansion of the United States Navy and to greater involvement of the United States in international affairs. All this has led to "dollar diplomacy," which followed the Roosevelt administration and may be seen as a late version of "gunboat diplomacy."
In this ideological and economic context, the construction of the Nicaragua Canal and the Panama Canal was planned, two works of enormous size that would facilitate the displacement of American goods to Central America.
