The] vast development of our industries…demands that we shall…seek constantly by all honorable means to extend our commercial interests in every practical direction. It is for this reason we have negotiated…treaties…conceived in the traditional American spirit of protection to our own industries, and yet mutually advantageous to ourselves and our neighbors. In the same spirit we have…[persuaded] all the great [world] powers to unite in a recognition of the general principle of equality of commercial access…in the markets of the Orient.
The perspective outlined in this excerpt provided justification for which action taken by the United States?

Responses

annexation of the Hawaiian Islands

issuance of the Roosevelt Corollary

involvement in the Spanish-American War

establishment of the Open Door Policy