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June19, 1902
President Roosevelt offers Columbis $10 mill. and and $250k in rent each year ifto allow us to buld the Canal. Colubia refuses offer and Roosevelt tells Panama that the U.S. would help get rid of Columbian rule in Panama if they claim independence. A fight takes place in Panama it takes place only a few hours to end. After the fight the U.S. pays Columbian soldiers $50 to not fight back. -
November 3, 1903
On November 3, 1903 Americans were alarmed, and critisized Roosevelt because of his "gunboat diplomacy" in Panama. U.S. Marienes are sent to Panama to keep hostile Columbian troops from getting in to the city. On this day Panama city was born, there constitution was written, and the U.S. payed Panama $10mill., which was promised to Columbia, for the promise of a secure canal zone and the rights to build. -
November 6, 1903
A Frenchmen acting for Panama signed treaty with U.S. giving the U.S. permision to dig. U.S. gained controle of a 10 mile zone across the isthmus of Panama U.S. paid $10mill. and $250k a year in rent to use the land. -
March 3, 1904
The canal has begun to be built. Roosevelt urges the engineers "to make the dirt fly." Disease begins to spread throughout the workforce. U.S. first year of building is like the French building efforts. The main engineir, John Findlay Wallace neglected to create a strategy for building -
March 4, 1904
Now the canal is finaly on track to being bult and just when it got going everything fell apart. There were landslides in the middle of the construction and people didn't want to work. Workers went on strike because of the landslides. These land slides took out huge machienery and killed many people. -
August 15, 1914
On this day the canal is officially opened. After years of hard work the canal was finnaly done. This canal brought together the Atlantic and the Pacific, something that had never been done before. This canal will take months off a boat trip around the world and is constantly used today. -
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November 11, 1906
This date marks the day Gorgas wiped out malaria and yellow fever completely from the panama canal work zone and surrounding areas. Gorgas used chemicals and anything he could find to kill any and all misquitos. On November 11, 1906 the last person died with malaria in the work zone. Gorgas brought his men in to his room and said, "this man is the last man that will die from this disease here."
