Patrick Henry's famous quote is "Give me liberty or give me death!"
They were all on the border of the two sides and all of them had reasons to go both ways in the conflict.
A legally recognized member of the country is a Citizen
You answer is: Citizen
I would say that the answer is the Panama Canal. Even though construction began in 1904, it is the only canal I can think of which fits the description given.
The canal cuts across the isthmus of Panama and it connects the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
Its tricky to say , because Germany was in debt because of sanctions imposed to them after World War I, and one of Hitler's proposals was that he could take Germany out of this debt.
However, a worldwide economic crisis could've pushed Hitler campaign even further, helping him rise to power.
It's impossible to affirm that it wouldn't have happened, had there not been a world crisis, but it sure had some impact on his rise to power, since he used, among other things, a speech of improving Germany's economy for campaigning.
