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1500's
“For more than five hundred years, since the time Christopher Columbus sailed along its
Caribbean coast, Panama was viewed as the crossroads of the world. Many countries were
interested in that region because finding a way to go through it would shorten the journey
around the world. Many nations also wanted to use its location to control and promote trade
among nations and to control both oceans. This is the story of how that desire for a passageway
became the site of one of the most daring and monumental achievements, and in the end, a way to bring
the peoples of the world together.”



1845
England wanted to build a railway to establish a shorter trade route to the east but the project was
so huge it discouraged them and they abandoned the idea. France entered a contract to build the
same railway in Panama but defaulted within a year. So America decided to build the railway across
the 50 miles of Isthmus to the Pacific and succeeded! The Panama Railroad played a significant role
in the building of the Panama Canal during both the French and American eras. It transported
workers, equipment, goods to work sites and carried miles of spoil away from the construction
sites.



1880

The French attempted to build the Panama Canal in
1881. Ferdinand de Lesseps had successfully built the
Suez Canal in Egypt, but failed in his attempt to build the
Panama Canal. He was not prepared for the rugged
terrain or tropical climate so the project went bankrupt.


1903

Panama declared itself independent and wanted to complete the Panama Canal, and opened
negotiations with us. “I had two courses open. I might have taken the matter under advisement
and put it before the Senate, in which case we should have had a number of most able speeches
on the subject, and they would have been going on now, and the Panama Canal would be in the
dim future yet. We would have had a half a century of discussion afterward.” -Theodore
Roosevelt



The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
signed, granting the United
States a strip of land across the
Isthmus of Panama and the right
to build and fortify the Panama
Canal.
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http:www.storyjumper.com
http://geography.about.com/od/culturalgeography/ss/Seven-
Wonders-Of-The-Modern-World_7.htm
Design help from my mom, Karen Dennehy
This book was created and published on StoryJumper™
©2014 StoryJumper, Inc. All rights reserved.
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www.storyjumper.com





1500's
“For more than five hundred years, since the time Christopher Columbus sailed along its
Caribbean coast, Panama was viewed as the crossroads of the world. Many countries were
interested in that region because finding a way to go through it would shorten the journey
around the world. Many nations also wanted to use its location to control and promote trade
among nations and to control both oceans. This is the story of how that desire for a passageway
became the site of one of the most daring and monumental achievements, and in the end, a way to bring
the peoples of the world together.”



1845
England wanted to build a railway to establish a shorter trade route to the east but the project was
so huge it discouraged them and they abandoned the idea. France entered a contract to build the
same railway in Panama but defaulted within a year. So America decided to build the railway across
the 50 miles of Isthmus to the Pacific and succeeded! The Panama Railroad played a significant role
in the building of the Panama Canal during both the French and American eras. It transported
workers, equipment, goods to work sites and carried miles of spoil away from the construction
sites.

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