When Britain and Venezuela Found Themselves in a Border Dispute

When Britain and Venezuela found themselves in a border dispute in 1895,the American Secretary of State sought to stop the conflict by

A) purchasing Venezuela.
B) citing the Monroe Doctrine and persuading Britain to settle the border dispute with Venezuela peacefully.
C) convincing the two sides to sit down and work out the problem, with American assistance.
D) persuading the British government to let all of its American colonies go.
E) calling Theodore Roosevelt, the Assistant Secretary of War, to step in and arbitrate between the two.