USA HISTORY

THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825

THE MONROE DOCTRINE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was the President during the building of the Canal and was the 1st to leave America?
A
Teddy Roosevelt
B
William Howard Taft
C
Woodrow Wilson
D
Franklin Roosevelt
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -When he visited Panama in 1906 to observe the building of the canal, Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to leave the country during his term of office.

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: -George W. Goethals, took over. He remained in charge of all canal construction until the completion of the project in 1914. Goethals directed a workforce of up to 50, 000 laborers.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of President Jimmy Carter’s greatest accomplishments was negotiating the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, which were ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1978. These treaties gave the nation of Panama eventual control of the Panama Canal.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the 1860s, Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps finished the construction of the Suez Canal. From there, he set out to build the Panama Canal and worked on it from 1881 to about 1890. Then the project went bankrupt.

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