Question
Almost 25% of the population of Barbados was sent to work on this project. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this project completed in 1914. It’s not in Florida or Cuba, but US Army physician William C. Gorgas helped save lives on this project with an anti-mosquito campaign.
ANSWER: Panama Canal [accept anything along the lines of the building of the Panama Canal; prompt on canal building]
[10e] To build the Panama Canal, the US supported Panama’s independence from this country in the early 20th century. Simón Bolívar led a “Gran” country of this name.
ANSWER: Colombia [or Republic of Colombia; accept Gran Colombia]
[10h] The US agreed to cede control of the Panama Canal in two 1977 treaties signed by Jimmy Carter and this “Maximum Leader of the Panamanian Revolution.”
ANSWER: Omar Torrijos (“torr-EE-hoes”)[or Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera; accept Torrijos-Carter Treaties]
<Michael Bentley, History - Cross, Historiography, and Miscellaneous> ~20808~ <Editor: Michael Bentley>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Dunbar | Chattahoochee A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lake Highland | Maggie Walker C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |