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panama canal

rayusa · 2021-01-22T20:13:15.841411-08:00

at the end of the spanish-american war, the `united states` had acquired the `philippines` and `hawaii`. this made the nation a major power in the pacific. the navy now needed to find a way to move ships from the west coast to the east coast that was more efficient than going around the tip of `south america`. the solution was to build a canal — a waterway connecting two bodies of water - across central america to join the `atlantic ocean` and the `pacific ocean`. in 1903, a revolution in `panama` gave the country its independence from `colombia`. president roosevelt now had the opportunity he needed to acquire a route for the canal, since the isthmus of panama is the narrowest piece of land in the americas. the u.s. government instantly recognized the new government of panama and signed a treaty that gave the united states a ten-mile-wide "canal zone" in exchange for a fee of $10 million and an annual payment of $250,000.

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