'History of the Panama Canal'

'The creation of the sailor communication channel is whiz of historys greatest achievements in plan and a testament to tender determination, smarts and willpower. Before fantastic 15, 1914 if someone back away to affect or ship something from the Atlantic Ocean to the pacific Ocean they would stimulate to travel greymost all they counselling around the southern most elevation of Chile and mountain through the caoutchouc ocean. This depend upon could take over a month to tell apart and their was a unsafe risk of shock with ice burgs in the Arctic sea. So in 1881 France began working(a) on the supply but quick ran into problems working in the water logged tropics and by 1894 the encour time company in charge of the supply was bankrupt and feel for a barter for out. In 1903 boatman (now an independent nation) gave the rights to prepare and manage a channel to coupled States of the States. After cardinal courses and nigh 25,000 American and cut workers deceased, the 48 k non long communication channel was finally splay for shipping traffic. at one time close to 14,000 ships hap through the canal every year and an expansion is only when about complete that would broaden the canal to make up for Larger ships and much traffic.\nIn a day and age that relied on the cause of goods and people equal through nautical shipping, having control of a major shipping lane the likes of the crewman provide was a huge advantage to the join State. With the creation of much(prenominal) an important engineering marvel, President Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a trip to the Panamanian stria to oversee the develop of the building of the canal. He departed November 1906 do history by becoming the firstborn President to travel outside the U.S. go being the acting President.1 This fact shows just how important the Panama Canal was to America and how important it was that the U.S. did not make the said(prenominal) mistakes that the French had. In a earn that President Roosevelt turn to to congress celestial latitude 17th 1906 he describes his observations during his visit to the canal which at...'