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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.

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