increase the mobility of the U.S naval fleet
reduce shipping costs on routes that linked the Atlantic and pacific oceans.
Panama's Capitol Building is located in "Panama City, Panama.
Because it was the thinest place to cut across being only sixty miles long.
After the Suez Canal was finished in 1869, the French felt that they could now achieve the Panama Canal.
I can not see any connection of the Panama Canal to manifest destiny. The dream of manifest destiny was actualized long before anybody had any serious hope building a canal across Panama.
Panama. It moves ships across Panama.
government building in panama city, Panama
because of all the disease infested insects
It was dangerous because of yellow fever and malarial mosquitoes.
I did not begin building the panama canal, and I did not finish it either.
Theodore Roosevelt worked with Colombia for the opportunity of building a canal in Panama.
There were at least 100 lives lost building the Panama canal.
because it might flood over the us