Question

WILL FAN AND MEDAL!

Answer 1

Question #1: Who is the central figure of the picture? What is he doing and what does that represent? (2 points)

Answer 2

That's our 26th President Theodore Roosevelt digging the Panama Canal, and him being depicted as giant and Bogota on the left and a treaty being signed probably has to do with the gunboat diplomacy between the US and Latin countries in that time period, heres a quote from a article I found with the picture in it (Author = David C. Hanson):

"On November 3, 1903, the Panamanian rebels successfully carried out a bloodless coup.
Without having fired a single shot, they proclaimed their independence the following day.
Without the contingent of U.S. Marines from the gunboat Nashville, which arrived in Panama
on November 2, Colombian troops would have squelched the revolt. And the presence of no
less than ten U.S. warships standing off shore prevented Colombia from sending in
additional troops. The U.S. immediately recognized the Republic of Panama (as did several
Latin American nations) and a treaty based on the original offer to Colombia was quickly
ratified."
So thats a little foreign affairs history, have fun!