panama canal

ughhhhhh

in what year did columus find panama

1502

how many workers worked on the panama canal

100000

what country first attempted to build the canal

french

two challenges the french encountered

posionous animals, and razor sharp ferns

president of the us during the building

theodore roosevelt

from what country did panama win its independence

columbia

how did theodore roosevelt become president

former president was killed

american ingineer selected to build the canal

john stevens

how much were workers paid

90 cents

disease eliminated by christmas of 1905

yellow fever

primary tool for moving earth

dynamite

regular as rain

funerals

us president who visited workers in panama

teddy rosevelt

the panam canal perfectly represents

technology and teamwork

dr gorgas sanitaion saved

71000 lives

engineer who replaced john stevens

george washington goethals

panama canl get pushed to the back of the newspaper because

york erupted in war

president of u at the start of world war two

franklin d rosevelt

the americans were scared that who would take over in WW2

natzis

the us refused to raise the flag in canal zone

panama

teddy rosevelts statment revealing american in the coupe

i took the isthmus

us had to pay columbia for reparations

10 million

the canal was expanded

to allow the passage of big ships

maintenance is still needed on the canal

true

how many ships have passed through the canal

half a million

the man who swam across the canal was charged

38 cents