L.C. BAKER
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"Originally started by the French, the Panama Canal was intended to drastically shorten the travel time of ships going between the Pacific and the Atlantic. The French project turned out to be a disaster, and they were eager to hand the project off. So when Theodore Roosevelt offered to buy it, they were more than willing. However, the United States Congress was less eager to spend the money. In order to speed things up, Roosevelt helped organize a revolution that overthrew the government of Panama and replaced it with a nation whose constitution had been written by Americans and whose flag had been designed by the wife of a pro-intervention congressmen."
Was Teddy acting on his own behalf as the President of the United States? Was Teddy acting on behalf of ALL of the Americans or was it for just a selected few Americans from the "governing class" with padded insider investments in New York City?
https://www.deseretnews.com/top/151...oversies-of-each-United-States-president.html
Imperialism of the Panama Canal? Building the Panama Canal took from 1903 until 1914 a total of eleven years. To support the revolution there, Roosevelt sent some American warships to the area as a show of force knowing the ones revolting wanted the canal completed. The victorious Panamanians gave the United States control of the Panama Canal Zone on February 23, 1904, for $10 million establishing permanent U.S. rights to a Panama Canal Zone that stretched across the isthmus. The agreement for the 10 million had been made on November 18, 1903. With the support of the U.S. government, Panama issued 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. They bought the Panama Railroad Company in 1881 and sold it to the United States in 1904. 1904 who imedietly rebuilt it on higher ground and with a heavier gage line. Two hundred train loads of dirt removed every day from the work sites. The railroad also transported materials and labor in addition to the trains servjng as sleeping quarters for workers.
Was Teddy acting on his own behalf as the President of the United States? Was Teddy acting on behalf of ALL of the Americans or was it for just a selected few Americans from the "governing class" with padded insider investments in New York City?
https://www.deseretnews.com/top/151...oversies-of-each-United-States-president.html
Imperialism of the Panama Canal? Building the Panama Canal took from 1903 until 1914 a total of eleven years. To support the revolution there, Roosevelt sent some American warships to the area as a show of force knowing the ones revolting wanted the canal completed. The victorious Panamanians gave the United States control of the Panama Canal Zone on February 23, 1904, for $10 million establishing permanent U.S. rights to a Panama Canal Zone that stretched across the isthmus. The agreement for the 10 million had been made on November 18, 1903. With the support of the U.S. government, Panama issued 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. They bought the Panama Railroad Company in 1881 and sold it to the United States in 1904. 1904 who imedietly rebuilt it on higher ground and with a heavier gage line. Two hundred train loads of dirt removed every day from the work sites. The railroad also transported materials and labor in addition to the trains servjng as sleeping quarters for workers.
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