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panama canal
In 1902, Panama was a province of colombia. Roosevelt offered Colombia $10 million in cash and $250,000 yearly in rent to allow the U.S. to Build a canal through Panama. They passed the spoonor bill. -
Revolt in panama
A revolt took place on Nov 3, 1903 U.S. gunboat wanted in the harbor to provide support for the rebles. U.S. maines Landed in colon to prevent hostile Colombian troops from reaching Panama City. Many Amerivans were alarmed by Roosevelt's role in the revolt, criticizing his "gunboat diplomacy." -
Panama Signs treaty
Frenchman acting for Panama signed a treaty giving the U.S. permant]ent use and control of a 10-miles-wide zone across the isthmus of Panama. The U.S. agreed to pay $19 million plus $ 250,000 a year in rent. -
U.S. begins to bulld the Panama Canal
-Why did they need to?
It took more than two months to travel form San Francisco to New York, It will be easier for U.S. Nary to defend the nation's new over sea empire.
-Who helped?
It was support by Theodore Roosevelt, local and frence helped them. -
The struggles in blds. The Panama Canal?
Construction of Canalin volved three major tasks. Workers had to cut through a mountain ,dam a river, and erect the canal's giant locks, by raising or lowering the water leved. The most challenge job was digging the Gaillard cut, a a-mile ditch through the mountqins. Thousands of men worked day after day under the tropical sun or in rainstorm. -
How did they nearly wiped out the Yellow Fever?
A major breakthrough came when a Cuban doctor, Carlos Juan finus, discovered that yellow Fever was transmitted by a certain kind of Mosquito, at Gorgus's direction, the works cleared brush and drained swamps where mosquitoes lived. The huge effort paid off. By 1906, Gorgus had wiped out yellow fever and reduced malaria in panama. -
Panama canal opens
The Panama Canal opened off on August 15, 1914. The world scarcely noticed. German troops were diving across Belgium toward Paris; The Newspapers relegated Panama to their back pages. The greatest engineerly project in the history of the world had been duarted by the totulity World War 1.
