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

The Roosevelt Corollary claimed that the United States could intervene in Latin American countries to prevent European powers from doing so. The Dominican Republic owed money to European creditors, and Roosevelt feared that unpaid debts could lead European countries to intervene there. Therefore, the correct choice is that Roosevelt feared European countries would take action if the Dominican Republic did not pay its debts.

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