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Digital History: How the Us Obtained the Panama Canal [Pdf]

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The story behind building a canal through the isthmus of Panama is one of incompetence and corruption on the part of the French, who first attempted the feat. Many of the actions of the United States in acquiring the land through which to build the canal were sketchy at best. Read about how Panama gained its independence, and how the canal was engineered. [pdf]

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colombia, panama, the panama canal
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digital history, ferdinand de lessups, hay- buanu-varilla treaty, hay-herran treaty, new panama canal compnay, panama canal, panama's independence, president theodore roosevelt, president theodore roosevelt's foreign policies, secretary of state john hay, building the panama canal, isthmus of panama
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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