The Teller Amendment is the correct answer.
After the end of the Spanish-American War, Senator Henry Teller of Colorado introduced the Teller Amendment in 1898, that the United States conquered Cuba until 1902, and did not violate the Teller Amendment to annex the Island. And the U.S. would help Cuba to gain independence and then withdraw all its troops from the country. This amendment was a part of President Mckinley's to resolve the issues between U.S and Spain. The United States promised to allow Cuba to be administered by its people, after assisting them to gain some stability and smooth over the dispute with Spain.
Because the US had build boats, ships, and airplanes. Troop support was a main one. And we were allies with Great Britain , and The Soviet Union.
The Suez and Panama canals are two of the most important canals in the world. They are crucial for the trade and travel through the sea, as they cut the sea routes by thousands of kilometers, which makes it much more easy and cheaper to use them. The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean with the Indian Ocean, thus avoiding to circle around Africa, while the Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and the Pacific, thus avoiding to circle around South America. The one that controls these canals will manage to always get very large wealth because everyone will opt to use them as it much easier, cheaper, safer, and quicker, but in order to use it, everyone needs to pay certain tax. Those taxes are bringing in constant profit from doing pretty much nothing for the countries that control these canals. Also, it brings in a lot of power, as they can block the access of any country to it if they want, thus giving them big power on the global economic scene.
These all have to do with the Legislative Branch, which is covered in Article 1 of the Constitution.
So the answer is A) Article I.
