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Article: Panama: Chapter 1C. The United States Protectorate
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Chapter 1C. The United States Protectorate
The 1903 Treaty and Qualified Independence
Naval operations during the Spanish-American War (1898-99) served
to
convince President Theodore Roosevelt that the United States needed
to control
a canal somewhere in the Western Hemisphere. This interest culminated