Imagine you are a colonist in North America. Using a word processing program, write a letter to a relative who still lives in Europe. Your letter should be friendly and written from the first-person perspective. (Writing in the first person means you are writing about yourself, using the pronouns "I" and "me.") The tone of your letter should be cheerful, highlighting the positive experiences and successes you have had in the New World. Discuss the things you like about your new life. Your goal is to convince your relative that you are happy and successful, enticing your relative to travel to the North America as well.

20 points! read the excerpt and then respond to the question: "hay-bunau-varilla treaty (panama canal treaty); november 18, 1903 the united states of america and the republic of panama being desirous to insure the construction of a ship canal across the isthmus of panama to connect the atlantic and pacific oceans, the congress of the united states of america having passed an act approved june 28, the president of the united states is authorized to aquire within a reasonable time the control of the necessary territory of the republic of columbia, and the sovereignty of such territory being actually vested in the republic of panama, the high contacting parties have resolved for that purpose to conclude a convention." 1. how does this document illustrate us foreign policy of imperialism?