![]() Grant called for the construction of a canal connecting the Pacific and the Caribbean through the isthmus of Panama and sent seven survey expeditions to explore the route between 18.Ī private French effort to cross Panama, then still part of Colombia, began in 1881. ![]() Global trade implications were obvious: a canal would cut Atlantic-to-Pacific voyage time by one-third and eliminate a hazardous journey around the tip of South America (Cape Horn, via the Straits of Magellan). ![]() The debate was over exactly where to build it across the Central American isthmus, how to pay for it, and who would control it. Use this Narrative before discussion of the Spanish-American War to allow students to understand arguments for and against imperialism during the late nineteenth century.įor decades before the construction of the Panama Canal, the British, the French, and Americans were interested in building an interoceanic canal. ![]()
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