| Term | Definition |
| jose de fabregas | 1st person who declares independence from Spain |
| Juan Eligio Alzuru | Panama independence from Gran Colombia 1831, excecuted by Thomas Herrera |
| Thomas Herrera | excecutes Alzuru returns Panama to Gran Colombia during civil war declares panama independent AGAIN calls it freestate of ithsmus, becomes Prez, then comes back to Gran Colombia |
| Teddy Roosevelt | Rough Riders! finishes canal |
| Victoriano Lorenzo | liberal federalist pro-independence from panama |
| Carlos Antonio Mendoza | writes Panama declaration of independence |
| Manuel Amador Herrera | first constitutional president of panama |
| Phillipe Bunau-Varilla | french, even though he wasn't authorized he signed a treaty giving the US permission to finish canal |
| Jimmy Carter | returns canal to panama |
| Bidlack Mallarino treaty | US agrees to send mone to help iferstructure(roads etc.) and to squash any rebelious movements |
| Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty | allows the US to finish canal |
| Torijos-Carter Treaty | returns panama canal |