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Big stick ideology

The Big Stick in the Caribbean Sea, a 1904 political cartoon by William Allen RogersDuration8 yearsLocationThe Americas (principally the Caribbean and Latin America)IncludingRoosevelt Corollary (1904)Relation to doctrine:Extension / radical reinterpretation of the Monroe DoctrinePresidentTheodore RooseveltKey eventsConstruction of the Panama Canal (begun 1904)Big stick ideology (also known as big stick diplomacy and big stick philosophy) was a political approach used by the 26thpresident of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.

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