USPR Unit II Lesson 1

41) What happened to Prestan after the Colon fire?

The rebellion was defeated, so he fled to Cartagena.

42) What was the only dock to escape unharmed from the Prestan rebellion?

The PMSC

43) What did US Navy secretary William C. Whitney do in response to the Prestan rebellion?

He ordered 3 warships, a PMSC steamer, and 600 marines to Colón, in order to comply with their obligations to the Bidlack Treaty

44) When did the Colombian government request US intervention due to the Prestan rebellion?

3 days after the US marines arrived, to save face.

45) What became of Pedro Prestán after the Rebellion and Colon fire?

The US Navy went to look for him in Cartagena. He was arrested and tried in military court, and he was hung.

46) What were the official charges pressed against Prestán and what did he claim he was actually being arrested for?

Officially, he was charged for the destruction of Colón. But he claimed the it was for kidnapping the customs agents.

47) Was the purpose of the US intervention during the Prestan rebellion to protect Colón?

An intercepted letter showed that the US only wanted to protect American interests, and to showcase their active navy overseas.

QUOTE 48) How was the Colombian army portrayed by the journalist from the New York Herald sent by Commander Bowman McCalla?

“A mongrel garrison penned down in a cuartel.”

QUOTE 49) How was the Panamanian civilian population portrayed by journalist from the New York Herald at the end of the 19th century?

“The vast majority of the inhabitants from the isthmus have never emerged from a half savage condition or else have relapsed into one.”

50) What did Irvin King of the New York tribune declare was the cheapest thing in Panama at the end of the 19th century?

Human life.

51) What fed the US interests in a Panama Canal after the Prestan rebellion?

The growth of US territory, commercial and military ambitions.

52) How did the US depressions of the 1870s and 1880s affect the relationship between the US and Panama?

The depression resulted in the US looking to sell goods to Asia, through Panama.

53) When did the French attempt to build a Canal in Panama?

Between 1879 and 1889.

54) How was the French Canal viewed by the US in light of the surplus of goods caused by their depression?

Apprehension

55) What was another NON military strategic aim of the Panama Canal for the US?

To populate the West Coast with white Europeans.

56) According to US Naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan, how did Asian immigration to the west coast of the US threaten the political efficiency?

People with different ethnicities do not allow for a homogeneous process.

QUOTE 57) What did Ted Roosevelt say on the immigration of Asians to the US west coast?

“If there is any country that in its own interests, should keep out the yellow man and favor the white man, it is our own country. There is no greater calamity than to have this Pacific slope filled up with a Mongolian population.“

58) How did the shorts through Panama affect the US colonial interests at the end of the 19th century?

Access to Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, and to trade with China.

59) What did the Spanish-American war happen?

April 1898 to August 1898

60) Why did this conflict make the need for a NAVAL route through Panama evident?

It takes 70 days to go from California to the Atlantic