The international waterway known as the Panama Canal allows ships to cut voyages by thousands of miles. Not having to go all the way around the southern tip of South America cuts about 8000 miles from a trip‚ from Matt Rosenburg‚ “Geographyabout.com” http://geography.about.com/od/specificplacesofinterest/a/panamacanal.htm accesed 1/2/13. The Panama Canal is obviously a very important perk for any country wanted to trade goods around that area‚ it was very hard to maintain but well worth it. Many
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Sonia Maria’s Daily The Panamanian Canal Reason for the event? Since the United States began to feel an upcoming conflict with Spain‚ we were prepared to go to war. They decided to send the USS Oregon from California to Cuba only there was one issue.. The voyage would take over 60 days and 14000 miles to land on Cuba. Not only that but in this process the USS Oregon had to stop in South America multiple times to fuel up on coal. At this point the U.S new it was time for a change. They found
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official name is República de Panamá. The capital is Panama. The currency they use is a Balboa. One US dollar equals one Balboa. Panama has a ruling party led by Democratic Change. It is supported by Patriotic Union Party‚ Panamenista Party‚ and National Republican Liberal Movement. The current president‚ Juan Carlos Varela‚ was elected in May 2014. He took office on July 1‚ 2014. The area of Panama is 77‚082. They had a population of 3.72 million people in 2012 (Panama: Nations 1444). The Constitution
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USA - Panama Canal Imperialism In president Rosevelt’s plan to build the Panama Canal he utilizes the idea that Americans knew they needed this to move ships from east to west quickly; the US for the first time was going to be able to gain control of both oceans. Theodore Roosevelt became the nation’s youngest president. Roosevelt assumed the office with the same vigor with which he charged up Kettle Hill. A long believer in Captain Mahan’s theory of sea power‚ Roosevelt began to revitalize the
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Before the Panama Canal was built‚ people would have to travel around South America. This took very long therefore; a passage in between the two continents would be beneficial. In the eighteen-hundreds‚ the project of the Panama Canal began. At first‚ France began the project‚ but lost its’ resources. Resulting‚ in the United States purchasing the project instead. At the time‚ this was the biggest project the United States had ever undertaken. It took nearly more than nine years to dig the canal. The
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the Suez Canal‚ turned their attention to Panama. A misguided attempt to dig a sea-level canal not only drove up costs up to £217 million‚ but the dirt piled up on the sides of the excavation created malarial swamps that sent death rates up ending over 22.000 workers lives before the project was cancelled in 1888 after the French canal company went bankrupt‚ nearly dragging the French economy down with it (The big ditch‚ page 61). During the time the French attempted to build the canal‚ the U.S.
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In the early 1500s‚ King Charles V of Spain had the idea of an international canal. The Panama Canal was first initiated by the French‚ completed by Americans and now in the hands of Panama. But the vision was brought to the world by Spain. The Panama Canal is a world-wide asset and was brought together by many different cultures and areas of the world. The Panama Canal brings the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean together. It has made travel shorter and more convenient. It is fifty miles long and took
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The Panama canal was a canal build for American and british leaders to send and receive goods from across the ocean faster‚ quicker and cheaper. When roosevelt became president of the united states as many other americans felt they needed a canal that would go across panama‚ a short cut across central america it would be more faster and cheaper‚ the United states wasn’t the only ones trying to build a canal in panama‚ a french company tried to build the canal but after 10 years they gave up‚ they
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waterway through Panama was the most effective method of reaching this goal. Panama‚ is a slender land mass with the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other. The perfect spot to build a shortcut between the two oceans. A shortcut that would be known as the Panama Canal. on June 19‚ 1902‚ after the passing of the 1901 Hay-Pauncefote Treaty allowing the United States permission to build a canal‚ the United States Senate decided the canal should be built through panama (“Building the
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America has built and owned many amazing things‚ but the Panama Canal is one of the greatest things we have built. The idea of having a canal in Panama dated back to the 1500’s when the king of Spain wanted to have a canal built. After it was proved to be impossible to build at the time‚ the king gave up on the idea. France was really the first to attempt building a canal in 1880. The process was led by Count Ferdinand de Lesseps. The workers started to get illnesses such as yellow fever and malaria
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