Multiple choice

Which is true about TR's efforts to gain rights to Panama Canal zone?

  1. Rough Riders invaded Columbia

  2. helped a Panamanian revolutionaries vs. Columbia

  3. Signed a treaty with Spain

  4. Sided with Columbia in a revolution
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B Correct answer
Explanation

When Colombia refused the U.S. proposal for the canal zone, Theodore Roosevelt supported Panamanian rebels in their fight for independence from Colombia, which then granted the U.S. the rights to the Canal Zone.

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