In Order to Acquire the Right for the United States

question 34

Multiple Choice

In order to acquire the right for the United States to build a canal across Panama in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt

• A) signed a treaty with Colombia.
• B) seized Panama.
• C) helped facilitate a Panamanian rebellion against Columbia and then negotiated a treaty to lease a strip of territory.
• D) purchased the completed canal from the French company.
• E) paid Columbia $25 million for a ten-mile wide strip of land in its province of Panama.

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