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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the focus of attention in the final stages?
2. What does Theodore Roosevelt stress in his autobiography as to his action in Panama?.
3. Manuel Amador looking to improve sanitation and end centuries of plague, invests what amount of U.S. $10 million payment into urgent public works projects?
4. When Phillippe Banau-Varilla resigns as Panamanian envoy, resumes publishing Le Matin, and asks the salary due him be reserved to build a monument to whom?
5. George W. Goethals allows employees to air grievances where?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is historically significant for Panama about January 15, 1904?
2. What would be an accurate description of John Stevens, the second chief engineer in Panama?
3. What is the focus of attention from 1907-1913?
4. What is occurring during the initial stage of U.S. efforts in Panama that culminates in a 1905 event?
5. What is traffic like following opening of the canal?
6. Why is the initial Chief Engineer, John F. Wallace, let go?
7. Rather than shutting the project down, what are some of the thing implemented by the authoritative new chairman of the ICC, Theodore Perry Shonts?
8. Why is Colonel William Crawford Gorgas sent to Panama?
9. What is the social life like in Panama for canal workers during Goethals' time?
10. How is it the U.S. must come to grips with Article 35 of the Bidack Treaty in regard to Panama?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
David McCullough reports that the second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty is the most important of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. Why does Roosevelt disapprove of the initial treaty? How does he demonstrate his objections? Why does Roosevelt state he is "delighted" by the November 18, 1901 signing of the revised treaty?
Essay Topic 2
Ferdinand de Lesseps begins publishing his "Bullet in du Canal Interocyanique" and George W. Goethals his "Canal Record. How are they alike? How do they differ? Are they merely propaganda organs, or is there some legitimacy to them? How effective is each?
Essay Topic 3
When the seven-headed ICC is replaced with a three-member version, it is chaired by Theodore Perry Shonts. How effective is the ICC's new chairman? What actions does he take to ensure success? Does he abide by the rules? What successes does he achieve? What failures does he encounter?
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