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Article: The Roosevelt Corollary.(Theodore Roosevelt )
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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As Mark Gilderhus shows in an article in this issue, the nineteenth-century history of the Monroe Doctrine featured decades of dormancy broken by sporadic reassertions and elaborations of the policy crafted by John Quincy Adams and James Monroe in 1823. Only in the 1890s did U.S. officials adopt a consistently forceful line based on the principle of nonintervention by European powers in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere. Secretary of State Richard Olney's 1895 claim of U.S. supremacy in the Americas marked the new attitude most clearly; the Spanish-American War of 1898 indicated that the U.S. claim would be backed by arms.
The new U.S. approach received a ...