Under pressure from Washington, the Dominican Republic´s government asked the United States to intervene in the country to restore order in finances in 1905. In an executive order, the US issued a guarantee that it would respect Dominican territorial integrity and that it would assume custom house collection, using 55% of receipts to pay outstanding obligations.
The year before, president Ted Roosevelt had formulated the policy later known as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. It said that the US would not allow European powers to collect debts from Latin American and Caribbean nations by force.
Of these options, the only one that was truly true of both the first and second industrial revolution is the "use of the assembly line" although the length of these lines varied.
