ABSTRACT
As Progressives searched desperately for order and stability at home amid the industrial revolution, so overseas they used the new American economic and military power in an attempt to impose order in such areas as China, the Caribbean, Mexico, and western Europe. And if Progressive agencies did not do the job, there were always the Marine Corps. Roosevelt was willing to use the mushrooming American industrial and military power to expand the nation's interest. Woodrow Wilson first attempt at making his progressivism work abroad never had a chance to succeed. He exerted extraordinary influence on twentieth- and early twenty-first-century American foreign policy. Although the American Senate refused to consent to this agreement, Roosevelt enforced it by calling it an "executive agreement". Wilson especially believed that only by becoming a belligerent could he force Britain and France to open the world to the stabilizing influences of American progressivism.
