velt to add a new "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904. The "Roosevelt Corollary" claimed the American right not only to oppose European intervention in the Western Hemisphere, but also to intervene in it's neighbor's domestic affairs if they proved unable to maintain order on their own. The "Roosevelt Corollary" was used to intervene in the Dominican Republic's bankruptcy in 1904, and in the Cuban revolts of 1906. However, the construction of the Panama Canal remains the most enduring of Roosevelt's accomplishments. Although he was not in office to witness its completion, it was his determination and strength that enabled its construction. The signing of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty in 1901 nullified an 1850 pact between Britain and America to construct the canal together, leaving the United States free to act alone. At first, Nicaragua was the preferred site for the canal, but soon the isthmus of Panama emerged as the superior choice. When Colombia failed to ratify a proposed treaty specifying the terms of construction, Roosevelt became outraged, and supported the Panamanian revolution by sending the U.S.S. Nashville, preventing the Colombians from suppressing the rebellion. Roosevelt then recognized Panama as an independent state, and negotiated the treaty for constructing the Panama Canal with the newly independent Panama. The canal opened in 1914. Theodore Roosevelt expanded the strength of the executive branch by bringing to his office a broad sense of its domestic and foreign power, and by investing the Presidency with something of its modern status as the center of national political life....
