The United States wanted to build the Panama Canal in order to save time and money on trading. Before the Panama Canal, people had to sail all the way around Africa in order to get to the other side of the world, which costed much more money and took a lot longer. The US owns the canal because of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty, which gave the rights to the USA to build and manage it.
The 2 conflicting sides was Christianity VS Evolution in this time period pretty much everyone was a supporter of Christianity and it was unholy to talk about anything that went against it.A substitute high school teacher John T Scopes apparently taught some evolution. He was then taken to court he claims he didnt actually teach human evolution but he purposely submitted to self incrimination ( to draw publicity) he was then fined 100$ The answer to your question Is Christianity VS Human Evolution
These things happened during the time of the Mexican Revolution. General Victoriano Huerta came after the assasination of Madero and Pino Suarez, but before that, Madero and Suarez were pushed to resign in 1913. The ouster of Huerta failed. The failure of Huerta's ouster resulted to a civil war.
