Theodore Roosevelt said, "I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also." What do you think this quote means or refers to?

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I think this quote refers to the Panama Revolution of November 1903. Let's remember that United States President Theodore Roosevelt supported Panama to get its independence from Colombia.

The federal government had many economic and political interests in the region, specifically, it wanted the control of the Panama Canal that the French had started to construct at the end of the 1800s.

Roosevelt created the corollary of the Monroe doctrine in which the United States sent a clear message to European superpowers saying that it was only the United States the ones that were going to intervene in the foreign issues of Latin America. No more European nations.

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