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.
So I actually have a Social Studies book from my old school, lucky for you, we got to the Cold War.
Here's what the book stated:
One of Reagan's proposals was the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). He believed this defense shield could make nuclear war impossible, but the unlikelihood that the technology could ever work led opponents to dub SDI "Star Wars."
Also, I do know that this is also found on another website but thats probably where the book's information came from.
During the Constitutional Convention, large states such as Virginia argued that "<span>D.a state’s congressional representation should be based on its population," since the larger physical states tended to have larger populations. </span>
Well I can eliminate the last one right, why would they want to lose money? I’d say it’s the 3rd one because who had more say on what happens with their company? If it’s incorrect I’ll straight up delete this unlike a lot of other people.
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European countries where scared that if there could be a revolution in Russia over throwing a monarchy it could happen in there country.
