if ships wanted to get from New York to California they had to travel all around south America and now they don't cause the panama canal is basically a shortcut. the Panama Canal connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Construction
Health measures during the construction of the Panama Canal happened in 1904.
not at the time
France started the construction of the Panama Canal but failed.
After ten years of construction, the Panama Canal was completed in 1914.
If the question is what President oversaw the construction of the Panama Canal, it would be Theodore Roosevelt.
The US encouraged the separation of Panama from Nicaragua, of which it was previously a part.
in the 2013.......... i think
1893
Initial construction was completed in 1914, and the canal opened, but construction continues to this day in enlarging, improving, and maintaining the canal.
Yelllow fever and Malaria-during US construction
The Panama Canal was started by the French in 1881 and construction stopped in 1889 because of poor working conditions and lack of funding. The United States took over construction and completed it in 1914 after it was ratified in 1904.