The completion of the Panama Canal in 1914 was the largest construction project in American history up to that point. How did Theodore Roosevelt's vision for U.S. foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere facilitate this feat?A. Roosevelt believed direct military intervention was the best way to spread American influence abroad and sent in the marines to seize a ten-mile-wide strip of land in Panama to be used for the construction of the canal.B. Roosevelt encouraged a Panamanian independence movement in Columbia and deployed an American gunboat to prevent the Colombian army from suppressing the rebellion.C. Rather than employing American workers, Roosevelt commandeered entirely Latin American immigrant labor to hasten the completion of the projectD. Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine encouraged European investment in Latin American countries which helped finance the construction of the canal.

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