User blog comment:Sparklyplatypus/"Are You Smarter Than an Xth Grader?"/@comment-3257430-20111116023407/@comment-3424724-20111116215545

Teddy got the canal by threatening to go to war with Panama (using his BIG STICK!). I'm not sure about the rest. But I learned about that in ninth grade too. My teacher even had a baseball bat that said: BIG STICK.