The Panama Canal

Better Equipment Makes More Efficient Work and Less Lives Lost The world was everlastingly changed when it opened and it inspired to have worldwide trade among the countries. This would change how other countries viewed the U.S on becoming a world power. The Panama Canal was cut across an isthmus which is a narrow piece of land. This project shaped the world and many countries saw that they were behind in the Industrial Age. It was probably the biggest project that was going on at the time and many people thought that this was just going to be another failure of an attempt. Connecting the oceans was a hard and expensive work, but improved equipment help with the building of it and also helped fight against the tropical diseases. The

told them they would defend against Colombia, Panama became a protectorate of the U.S. This means that they would always be protected whenever someone attacked them (Carson, Bonk, pg. 1). Once Colombia came with troops, they noticed that the U.S. had sent more troops than them. They decided it is not worth fighting against them. Some people were strongly against this and they realized that the canal would be built. They started to do riots to try to make them think again about what they will be doing (Rumage, pg. 1). Soon the United States and Columbia started to try to agree on what would happen

so it easily cracked. The French when they started had to have several layers because they were so weak. We had to ship tons of cement to Panama. They sent five million barrels of cement for the canal. This amount of cement helps you imagine why the French ran out of money so quickly. Once the Canal was finished in August of 1914, the ship Cristobal was the first ship to use it. The first ship to go through publicly after the war was the Ancon. On December 31, 1999, it was the last day that the U.S. had control over the canal and we returned the land to Panama. (Schlager, Lauer, pg. 3,