Canals

Acquired by whom? It was, subsequent to the Spanish conquest, part of Spain's colony of New Granada. After the Spanish were thrown out of South America early in the 19th Century, it became part of the short-lived republic of Gran Colombia. After Gran Colombia was fragmented by civil wars in 1830, it remained a province of the smaller nation of Colombia. This situation changed early in the Twentieth Century when Panama, with the support and encouragement of the Uniteed States, declared its independence from Colombia. The U.S. engineered this event because Colombia refused to allow the US to complete the Panama Canal. Panama has been independent since its inception, though under strong US control for many years. The US had control and ownership of the canal itself (The Canal Zone) until the US gave it back to Panama late in the Twentieth Century, under a treaty signed by US President Carter.

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No. Most, but not all, other canals have canal locks. Most canals are not built on flat land. Another without locks is the Corinth Canal.

In early Middle Eastern civilizations probably first built canals to supply drinking and irrigation water.

Gangs of laborers (called "navvies" or "navigators") first constructed British canals to provide artificial waterways for more efficient transportation of goods and materials during the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century. Canals served to open up countries to the Industrial Revolution, just as the Internet is opening up the world to the Information Revolution.

The engineer of the Suez Canal was a Frenchman named Ferdinand De-lessemps.

The Panama Canal is a man made canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Approximately 50 miles long, it stretches across the Isthmus of Panama. The idea of the project derived from King Charles of Spain, when he suggested to cut a piece of land from Panama to speed up trading and to make it safer. However, wars in Europe hindered the project. The French began to make a canal in 1881 (Ferdinand deLesseps) but it was abandoned 8 years later due to deLessep's struggles. The Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty was signed, giving Panama independence, hence the opportunity to build a canal. With 80,000 workers employed, it was finally opened in August of 1914. It cost $320 million and 30,000 lives, but it was VERY successful and is still in use today. Answered by Alessandra (please visit my site, raoallie.com and alessandrarao.com)

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They made for easier travel and trade back before our modern transportation was made

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Transportation. Prior to railroads. goods and passengers moved by canal boat.

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The opening of the Panama Canal affected transportation because now, sailors didn't have to sail ALL the way around South America.

It helped solve transportation issues

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The Suez Canal is 193,300 metres long.

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Akron, Ohio is the highest point on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

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Built in 1845 as a source of power, water and transportation, the 11-mile Augusta Canal was one of the few successful industrial canals in the American South. By 1847 the canal had its first factories - a saw and grist mill and the Augusta Factory- the first of many that would eventually line the canal.

creating what its promoters hailed as "the Lowell of the South," in honor of the Massachusetts manufacturing powerhouse considered the home of the American Industrial Revolution.

By the time of the American Civil War, Augusta had become one of the South's few manufacturing centers. The power and transportation afforded by the Canal led to Augusta's selection as the location for the Confederate States Powderworks. The only buildings ever constructed by the government of Confederate States of America, the 28 Powderworks structures reached along the Canal for two miles. Other war industries established themselves on or near the Canal, making Augusta a critical supplier of ammunition and war materiel. Consequently, when the Civil War ended in 1865, Augusta found itself in reasonably good economic condition, unlike some other Southern cities devastated by the conflict.

In 1875 the canal was enlarged roughly to its current size. Boom years followed as massive factories including the Enterprise, King and Sibley textile mills, the Lombard Ironworks and many others opened or expanded. Farm families migrated to the city for factory jobs as "operatives." Largely employing women and children, some as young as seven or eight, the factories led to the rise of several "mill villages" in their precincts. By the 1890's working conditions in the mills-eleven-and-a-half hour days, work speed-ups and pay reductions-and living conditions in the mill villages created a climate ripe for labor unrest, but none of Augusta's strikes were successful.

The idea of connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea is as old as the pharaohs. The first canal in the region seems to have been dug about 1850BCE, but that attempt, like many others, failed. Desert winds blew in and clogged the canal. About 150 years ago, Great Britain had a thriving trade with India, but without a canal, British ships had to make a long journey around the entire continent of Africa in order to trade with India. A canal through the Isthmus of Suez would cut the journey from Great Britain to India by 6,000 miles. An isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger pieces of land.

shorten trade routes

If the question is what President oversaw the construction of the Panama Canal, it would be Theodore Roosevelt.

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