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Why did the US support the independence of Panama?
Question 6 options:

To obtain rights to build a canal

To promote democracy

To secure the businesses which ran sugar plantations

To bring justice to human rights violations

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To obtain rights to build a canal.

The U.S. backed Panama's 1903 independence from Colombia so it could secure rights (Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty) to build and control the Panama Canal.