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France sold the concession to the USA late in the 19th century. Many reasons combined to make the French project a failure, bad design, bad management, effects of the tropical climate, disease and primitive equipment,

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The French failed to build the canal due to BANKRUPTCY and DESISE in the canal zone.

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The French failed because they were trying to make it sea level which would take severe digging and an extremely large amount of labor.

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The French did not finish building the Panama Canal as they ran out of money and support to continue construction. The United States completed the Canal in 1913 and opened it in 1914.

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the french company building it ran out of money

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The diseases killed them.

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