Why did President Theodore Roosevelt use the Roosevelt Corollary in the Dominican Republic?

The Dominican Republic owed money to European nations, and Roosevelt feared that they might intervene militarily to collect the debt. The Roosevelt Corollary justified U.S. intervention in Latin American countries to prevent European powers from taking action there. Therefore, the correct choice is that Roosevelt was concerned European countries would act if the Dominican Republic failed to pay its debts.

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