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THe Panama Canal was built by the United States of America.
they had to decide to build the canal in Nicaragua or panama they chose to build it in panama .
to have a faster way of getting to the other side of America
so that the U.S. could maintain presence in the Caribbean and for protecting the future canal that American leaders wanted to build across the Isthmus of Panama (Panama Canal).
America collaborated with the independance struggle of Panama in order that America would be in a position to build the Panama Canal. America needed an inter-ocean canal in order to serve both western and eastern seaboards without ships having to go around South America, thousands of miles extra.
The Panama canal was built in Panama because that is the narrowest point between North and South America.
The United States of America was given the land it needed to build the Panama Canal through the signing of the Hayâ??Herran Treaty. The treaty was signed on January 21, 1903.
so that the U.S. could maintain presence in the Caribbean and for protecting the future canal that American leaders wanted to build across the Isthmus of Panama (Panama Canal).
the building of the panama canal played a huge role in South America because the us traded help with the people of panama in gaining indapendance from Chile in order to build and controle the canal.
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The French and the U.S. worked together to build the Panama canal.
hay-banau-varilla treaty