Which of the following statements is/are TRUE? (i) The

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Which of the following statements is/are TRUE? (i) The United States got exclusive rights to build the canal in the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901, and engineers identified two possible routes: one through Nicaragua, which posed fewer obstacles because it crossed a large lake, and one through Panama, then a province of Colombia, which was shorter but had mountains and swamps. (ii) Shortly before Congress voted to choose a route, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, an investor and chief engineer with the New Panama Canal Company, sent all the Senators a Nicaraguan stamp that pictured an erupting volcano -- and the Senate approved the route through Panama. (iii) When the United States' negotiations with Colombia broke down, Bunau-Varilla helped to organize a Panamanian rebellion. Statements I and II Statements II and III Statements I only Statements I, II, and III