about years or months i kinda forgot
Because your a GOAT and your just a GOAT
Answer:
Roosevelt used the "big stick" because he believed he had it to use. The US had proved a few years before that its navy could stand up to Spain and that the army and marines could hold its own its own in small-scale land wars.
He believed that the US should continues its policy established by the Monroe Doctrine decades before to protect American countries from foreign intervention or take-over. The problem in his day was more from economic threats from foreign countries trying to collect debts than from dreams of colonization, but Roosevelt saw a parallel.
One of the main factors that allowed Native Americans in Mexico to settle cities larger than those in areas to the north was that Central America contained far more gold and riches that acted as currency and boosted the economy. Practically no gold was found in what is now the eastern United States.
The answer is D I believe
