Panama Canal

What is the Panama Canal?

• a northwest passage through Canada
• a waterway through northern Egypt
• A waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Panama
• A river that runs through Panama

What is an isthmus?

• A narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas.
• A trade route
• A hole in the ground used for war
• A path submarines took to travel

Which country tried and failed to build the Panama Canal?

• France
• Great Britiain
• China
• Mexico

What disease spread through the Panama Canal

• chicken pox
• cancer
• flu
• yellow fever

What US President was most influential in starting the Panama Canal?

• FDR
• JFK
• Teddy Roosevelt
• Taft

What did they create to make the canal more successful?

• locks?
• bridges?
• oceans?
• trees?

What date was the canal completed?

• July 3, 1979
• August 14, 1914
• April 10, 1900
• November 27, 1905

How did the opening of the Panama Canal stimulate long-term economic activity in the United States?

• The Panama Canal allowed for increased trade by reducing the physical barriers between the US and countries with Pacific Ocean ports.

• The US hired numerous construction workers to undertake the construction and maintenance of the Panama Canal.

• Trading ships from the US were unable to access Panamanian ports before the opening of the Panama Canal.

• Once the Panama Canal opened, Panamanian traders were able to travel along the canal and access to US ports on the Gulf of Mexico.

What was the GREATEST impact of the Panama Canal

• It tremendously reduced the travel time between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

• Revolutionaries in Panama began a decades-long uprising to drive out the United States.

• The economic power of the United States was greatly strengthened.

• Spain went to war with the United States to gain control of the Canal.

Why did the United States build the Panama Canal?

• to create a strong partnership with Panama

• to decrease the time and cost of shipping goods

• to demonstrate the United States’ engineering skills

• to create jobs for the many unemployed workers in America