Panama Canal

Major challenges of building the Panama Canal.

• cutting through hills

• building a dam

• constructing the locks

• all of the above

Ships traveling by canal from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean move accross the Isthmus of ________.

Panama Canal opened in this year.

• 1912

• 1913

• 1914

• 1915

This President took credit for the building of the Panama Canal.

The US paid Colombia this amount to heal relations.

Length of the Panama Canal

• 48 miles

• 58 miles

• 68 miles

• 78 miles

Treaty that gave a Canal Zone to the US

French dug a ridge that caused mudslides.

• yellow fever

• malaria

• Culebra Cut

• Hay-Bunau Varilla

This canal was built by a French company in Egypt.

Yellow fever and malaria are caused by this.