Essays on Panama Canal

22,000 laborers died during the French effort to build a canal through the Isthmus of Panama in the 1880s. Most of these workers died after contracting yellow fever or malaria. The French were forced to abandon the project in 1889 after spending $287 million. In...

Since the beginning of Teddy Roosevelt’s administration, he needed to imperialize the United States. He accepted that building a waterway in Latin America would be a decent method to imperialize. It would associate the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and would be a lot snappier...

Before the Panama Canal was built, and before the country of Panama had its independence from Colombia, there was much debate on where the canal should be placed. A majority of scholars and intellectuals agreed that Nicaragua was the most ideal location because the country...

Earlier this week, French engineers were forced to abandon their work in Panama after receiving news their privately owned company ran out of money. For the past eight years, France has been trying to construct a canal that would link the Atlantic Ocean and the...

America had remained mostly an isolated country until the late 1800’s when the United States was faced with the opportunity of building a colonial empire. By 1890 the United States had begun to expand its influence onto islands in the Caribbean and South Pacific areas....