Which sentence from the article BEST develops a central idea? Even before the Civil War, in 1850 a New York company constructed the Panama
Railroad, which was the world's first railway to go from one continent to another.
In 1895, Cuban nationalists launched a war against Spain that threatened both the
sugar trade and these American businesses.
But later, Washington put pressure on Cuba and in 1903, the United States got the
rights to the naval base at Guantánamo Bay and U. S. companies had a privileged
position in the island's sugar industry.
O Washington did not want any countries in Europe to move their forces into the area,
so Roosevelt declared his so-called "corollary" that follows along with the ideas in the
Monroe Doctrine.