One way thing that the US could do about monopies is regulating them by breaking a monopoly up. In certain cases, government may decide a monopoly needs to be broken up because the firm has become too powerful. This rarely occurs. For example, the US looked into breaking up Microsoft, but in the end the action was dropped. This tends to be seen as an extreme step, and there is no guarantee the new firms won’t collude.
The Hawley-Smoot act was a statute in the US that introduced protectionist trade policies. This act was aimed at supporting american farmers, agriculture and industrial products have risen by 20%.
By helping the Panamanian's overthrow the Columbian government.
In recent years the U.S. has signed two treaties turning over the Panama Canal to the republic of Panama in the year 2000. Making the Panama Canal bigger is still needed.
Why they wanted it built: The U.S. wanted to avoid going around South America and insure less time for U.S. Naval ships to travel and protect U.S. possessions around the world
