AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
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the annexation of Nicaragua.
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the election of Teddy Roosevelt as president.
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the creation of the Panama Canal.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The desire of the United States to join the Atlantic and Pacific oceans led to this. It provided a faster way to go to the other side of the world without having to go around the tip of Africa. United States took control of which countries? The Philippines, Puerto Rico, The Pacific Island of Guam.
Detailed explanation-2: -President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal-a trans-isthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Panama Canal was first developed following the failure of a French construction team in the 1880s, when the United States commenced building a canal across a 50-mile stretch of the narrow Panama isthmus in 1904.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Panama Canal is an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1903, the United States negotiated a treaty with Colombia that granted the United States the right to construct and operate a canal for 100 years within a zone six-miles wide across Panama.