USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

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Why did Panama agree to lease the land needed for the Panama Canal to the United States?

(A) The Panamanian government wanted to avoid war with the United States.

(B) Panama wanted to become a state within the United States.

(C) ** The United States provided aid to the Panamanian Revolution.

(D) The United States promised to share any profits with Panama.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -There were some independence movements which the US decided to support, creating a new country in order to construct this canal. So Panamanians who welcomed independence welcomed the canal.

Concept note-2: -The frayed relations between the U.S. and Panama began almost immediately after the signing of the 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty that allowed the U.S. to build and maintain the Panama Canal on the Isthmus of Panama. Panama was established as a country, with U.S. assistance, shortly before the treaty was signed in 1903.