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Year Created: 1905
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This political cartoon, created and published by Louis Dalrymple in 1905, illustrates the Roosevelt Corollary foreign policy. It depicts a large, stern-faced Theodore Roosevelt, perched atop a massive naval cannon labeled "U.S." on a battleship. The ship is aiming at a European monarch who is holding a document labeled "CLAIMS" and reaching towards the "Republic of Santo Domingo," personified by a local figure sitting on the map of the island. A signpost on the cannon reads "MONROE DOCTRINE," signifying the basis of Roosevelt's actions. The message is that the United States, through the expanded interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, would use its military might to prevent European intervention in Latin America.
