To make an easier trading and shipping route to other sides of the earth. It also sped up the amount of time it took to reach those destinations.
Panama Canal
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.
1914
William B. Van Ingen is credited with painting the murals in the Panama Canal Building.
malaria.
After ten years of construction, the Panama Canal was completed in 1914.
During the building of the Panama Canal, workers had to go through attacks of mosquitoes and malaria.
If the question is what President oversaw the construction of the Panama Canal, it would be Theodore Roosevelt.
1,000,000 at least
they had to dig it up