The United States built the canal, one of the engineering marvels of the day, after helping Panama achieve independence from Colombia. Roosevelt the nationalist envisioned the canal as an ...

Panama was then a province of Colombia, which refused to ratify a subsequent 1901 treaty licensing U.S. interests to build the canal. Roosevelt responded by dispatching U.S. warships to Panama's ...

The canal remained unfinished, but the dream had not yet ended. Theodore Roosevelt would soon take up the cause. Shortly after ascending to the presidency, Roosevelt spoke of the Panama Canal in a ...

Roosevelt immediately declares the need to build a canal in Central America. The stirring of a movement for Panama's independence begins with a meeting between Senator Arango, employees of the ...

The dream conjured up by President Teddy Roosevelt was ultimately achieved through a treaty signed between the U.S. and freshly-independent Panama in 1903. The canal remained under U.S. control ...

Teddy Roosevelt deserves credit for securing American ... (A controversial amendment to Carter’s 1977 Panama Canal Treaty, named the DeConcini Reservation after Arizona senator Dennis DeConcini ...

Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops' ...

However, as he knew from first-hand experience fighting in Cuba during the War of 1898, the United States had vested interests in the Caribbean, and Roosevelt therefore ensured the protection of the ...

The U.S. spent over 370 million dollars at the time and finished the canal in 1914. And the U.S. controlled the canal for ...