In a paragraph, decide whether the Panama Canal, the Spanish American War or the Annexation of Hawaii had the most significant impact on the United States. Support your decision by describing the event and how it contributed to the development of the United States as a world power.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is