Panama Canal

It traveled from north to south or from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.

It depends, they can connect to mountains.

people got smashed and fell down and broke there legs. sad right

The land was mostly lakes and swamps already. It was just a matter of turning all the lakes, swamps and clearing the jungle/mountains from sea to sea to form a usable canal.

The Panama Canal is an example of imperialism. Theodore Roosevelt gave 20 million dollars to rebels in Panama to separate from Colombia. Colombia had refused to allow the US to make a canal. The US has invaded Panama when we did not like Manuel Noriega. Basically the US has treated Panama as a child that the US can discipline at will.

Theodore Roosevelt was the president who was most responsible for the building of the Panama Canal. He engineered a revolution in Panama which made it possible for the US take over the canal from the French who had begun the project. Work continued throughout Taft's term and it finally opened for business in 1914 when Woodrow Wilson was President.

It can be said that the Panama Canal has benefited every country in Central America because the Panama Canal provides a way to go through North America and South America. If it wasn't there, you would have to go around South America to get past North or South America by boat.

Type your answer here... It shortened the travel time by ship between the two coasts

i think that we did not treat them farly because we are a very selfish country!

East

There are locks at each end of the Panama Canal that raise ships some 85 feet above sea level. The options to construct the canal were to either dig the canal down to sea level for the entire length or use locks to allow the canal height to be more in line with the natural terrain through which it passes.

Although the locks are technically more complex than simply cutting a channel, they reduced the work required dramatically and caused less damage to the surrounding land.

A lame answer would be 80 but a good answer is : "People say 77km, 80km, or 82km. It could be between 78km and 83km. To tell you The panama canal is actually under construction. It will double in size.

The first serious attempt to build a canal to join the Atantic and Pacific Oceans was made by France. They gave up in 1893 and, starting in 1904, the U.S. began the completion, which took ten years. The land that made up the Canal Zone was purchase by the U.S. from Colombia for $25 million.

It caused many people to die but also led to the incresed industry of the sex trade.

It is estimated that around 27 500 workers died in the construction of the Panama Canal. The Bubonic plague accounted for some of them, but malaria and yellow fever were far more prevalent, and killed considerably more workers.

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Obstacles might include mudslides, passing through a mountain range, different levels of land and lakes, diseases that affected workers, and the opposition of the Colombian government to the presence of the United States in the region. Engineers had to build a dam, design and build locks, and remove huge amounts of earth and rock. A medical obstacle is that scientists had to develop vaccines and medications to treat the disease malaria that affected many workers. A political obstacle was that the government of Colombia did not allow the United States to build the canal. The United States helped Panama revolt against Columbia, and Panama gave the United States the permission it needed.

According the Panama Canal Authorities, it takes 8 - 10 hours to cross.

Nicaragua. I found that out in my report for the Panama Canal. =D

The city of Colon is the entrance to the Panama Canal. It lies at the northern most end of the canal.

They lowered the costs of shipping goods across New York from $100 a ton to $5 a ton.

An initial attempt by France to build a sea-level canal failed after a great amount of excavation was carried out. This was of use to the United States, which completed the present Panama Canal in 1913 and officially opened it in 1914.
Along the way, the State of Panama was created through its separation from Colombia in 1903, due to a US backed revolt, so the US could then get control of the Canal project area.
After construction, the canal and the Canal Zone surrounding it were administered by the United States.
On September 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed the Torrijos-Carter Treaty, which set in motion the process of handing over the canal to Panamanian control.
The treaty provided for a twenty-year period during which Panama would have increasing responsibilities for Canal operations, culminating in complete U.S. withdrawal in 12/1999.
The Canal Zone is now run by the Panama Canal Authority.

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The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Pacific & Atlantic Oceans

When I was in primary school I read that it was the famous French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps who successfully built the Suez Canal, but when he had a go at Panama, the isthmus was too expensive and difficult to dig, malaria killed most of the workers and corrupt contractors stole lots of the money.

The Americans (or rather, the U.S. Army) succeeded years later because:-

(i) the link between mosquitoes and malaria had been discovered, so the mosquitoes were killed with fire and by draining the swamps where they bred, and

(ii) It was a military project with inexhaustible supplies of public money. The U.S. Navy wanted to be able to join its Atlantic and Pacific fleets without going around Cape Horn).

Poor old De Lesseps' attempt was only a private capital venture and he had greedy shareholders to please.

Once again the United States has proved that compared to state controlled projects, Capitalist enterprise is puny, short-sighted, weak and next to useless. See also the Hoover Dam.

Interestingly the Panama hat actually comes from Ecuador.