Location
The ocean that Panama is located in.
What is the Pacific and Atlantic oceans?
The name of the country that had ruled over Panama.
What is Colombia?
The geopolitical build that would help to make the U.S. one of the most powerful nations on earth.
What is the Panama Canal?
The country that was seen as strong for finishing the canal.
What is the United States?
The region that Panama is located in.
What is Central America?
The U.S. helped Panama gain this from Colombia.
What is independence?
By using the canal, the United States could create colonies and control territory without entering into ___ with other countries.
What is war?
This became stronger in the United States because of the canal.
What is the Navy?
The hemisphere that Panama is in.
What is the Western Hemisphere?
The day that Panama declared its independence from Colombia.
What is November 3, 1903?
The U.S. could now move this through Panama.
What is the U.S. Navy?
The U.S. gained a lot of control over this through the canal.
What is trade?
The continent that Panama is located on.
What is North America?
The name of the treaty the U.S. signed with Panama for the canal.
What is the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty?
The place that was avoided by going through the Panama Canal.
What is the Drake Passage?
(The tip of South America)
The defeat of these kinds of diseases helped the U.S. look smart, efficient, and strong.
What is mosquito-carried diseases?
The strip of land that connects the North and South Americas, and divides the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
What is the Isthmus of Panama?
The name of the zone the United States paid Panama $1 million plus an annual fee of $250 thousand for.
What is the Canal Zone?
This was reduced by the U.S. using the Panama Canal.
What is time and money?
The percent of trade that goes to and from U.S. ports to and from the canal.
What is 72%?