History of the Panama Canal

The creation of the navy man render is one of historys greatest achievements in engineering and a testament to human determination, smarts and willpower. Before rarefied 15, 1914 if someone needed to transit or ship something from the Atlantic oceanic to the Pacific Ocean they would have to travel southward all they way well-nigh the southern most run of Chile and down finished the Arctic ocean. This trip could ware over a month to make do and their was a good risk of collision with applesauce burgs in the Arctic sea. So in 1881 France began working on the channel but pronto ran into problems working in the pissing logged tropics and by 1894 the molybdenum company in delegacy of the furnish was bankrupt and spirit for a buy out. In 1903 Panama (now an independent nation) gave the rights to effect and man eon a canal to fall in States of America. After xi course of instructions and roughly 25,000 American and French workers deceased, the 48 ml long canal was in the end open for shipping traffic. direct close to 14,000 ships pass done the canal every year and an expansion is nearly complete that would widen the canal to deem for Larger ships and more traffic.\nIn a day and age that relied on the movement of goods and hoi polloi a like through oceanic shipping, having control of a major(ip) shipping lane like the Panama Canal was a huge advantage to the United State. With the creation of such an crucial engineering marvel, chairperson Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a trip to the Panamanian Isthmus to oversee the get on with of the building of the canal. He foregone November 1906 making history by becoming the first President to travel outside the U.S. enchantment being the Acting President.1 This particular shows just how important the Panama Canal was to America and how important it was that the U.S. did not make the corresponding mistakes that the French had. In a letter that President Roosevelt address to congress December seventeenth 1906 he describes his observations during his visit to the canal which at...