Running head: TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND THE PANAMA CANAL Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Canal Name Institution TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND THE PANAMA CANAL 2 Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Canal Theodore Roosevelt had been working so hard to see that the US transforms back to one of the greatest super powers. Having worked as an assistant secretary in the navy, a military hero, a speaker and also a writer, a vice president and later as a president in 1901, he believed that America had racially superior citizens who were destined for supremacy in economic and political affairs. After getting into office as president in the year 1901, he presided the signing of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty with Great Britain. Since 1850, the treaty made it difficult for either country to build a Central American canal without involving active participation of the other country. Later, Roosevelt instructed his advisors to come up with a plan of a route passing through Nicaragua despite the previously chosen Panamanian Canal by the French which was shorter. Since negotiations made did not deliver the results Roosevelt hopes for, he was advised the Panamanians to revolt against the Columbian rule. In addition to th ...
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