What challenges did Americans building the Panama Canal?

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Matias Valencia

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13 October, 17:57

What challenges did Americans building the Panama Canal?

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Building the Panama Canal, 1903-1914. President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal-a trans-isthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.