COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
IMPERIALISM IN ASIA
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Question
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Panama gave the US the Statue of Liberty
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Panama created a national holiday to honor the US
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Panama refused to join Simon Bolivar’s war against the US
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The US was allowed to build the Panama Canal
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Detailed explanation-1: -With the support of the U.S. government, Panama issues a declaration of independence from Colombia. The revolution was engineered by a Panamanian faction backed by the Panama Canal Company, a French-U.S. corporation that hoped to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans with a waterway across the Isthmus of Panama.
Detailed explanation-2: -By persuading and funding an independence movement in Panama, the newly formed nation signed a treaty with the U.S. allowing it to build a canal through a strip of Panamanian land that was leased to them.
Detailed explanation-3: -More than a century ago, the opening of the Panama Canal revolutionized international trade by making it much quicker and easier to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1903, Panama declared its independence from Colombia in a U.S.-backed revolution and the U.S. and Panama signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, in which the U.S. agreed to pay Panama $10 million for a perpetual lease on land for the canal, plus $250, 000 annually in rent.
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.