During the 1880s, following completion of the 105-mile Suez Canal, French entrepreneur Ferdinand DeLesseps poured billions of francs and 25,000 lives into an unsuccessful attempt to build a sea-level canal through Panama. The French effort was thwarted by disease, unreliable machinery, and almost a billion cubic yards of rock that stood in the way.
In 1879, Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal proposed a sea level canal through Panama. With the success he had with the construction of the Suez Canal in Egypt just ten years earlier, de Lesseps was confident he would complete the water circle around the world. Time and mileage would be dramatically reduced when traveling from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean or vice versa. For example, it would save a total of 18,000 miles on a trip from New York to San Francisco.
Although de Lesseps was not an engineer, he was appointed chairman for the construction of the Panama Canal. Upon taking charge, he organized an International Congress to discuss several schemes for constructing a ship canal. De Lesseps opted for a sea-level canal based on the construction of the Suez Canal. He believed that if a sea-level canal worked when constructing the Suez Canal, it must work for the Panama Canal.
The fifteenth amendment gave African Americans the right to vote. However they still couldn't because of poll taxes and literacy tests.
Answer:disagree.
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Punjabi is the most spoken
More than 6 million because of the holocaust. I would say 9 mil
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D. Spanish Colonization
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Spanish Colonization started when Christopher Columbus found the Natives and turned them into slaves and made them mine gold for his own profit, he also tried to sell them away as slaves. When more people started to come to America during the Spanish Colonization, diseases and illnesses killed many Native Americans as they had no illness resistance. Lots of Natives were also forced into slavery by the Spanish, mostly in mining as lots of gold and other profitable materials were there. Eventually, as many of the Natives kept dying of diseases the Spanish decided to get African Americans for slaves instead as they had a better resistance against diseases and illnesses.
