2nd one because those were the areas with the best water to grow the planbts.
The technology that we have versus theirs
According to google, "<span>The </span>Roosevelt Corollary<span> was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore </span>Roosevelt<span> in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03."
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