Considered one of the wonders of the modern world, the Panama Canal opened for business 100 years ago this Friday, linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and providing a new route for international trade and military transport.
At the time it was built, the canal was an engineering marvel, relying on a series of locks that lift ships – and their thousands of pounds of cargo – above mountains.
But thousands of workers died during its construction, and its history has seen no shortage of controversy, including a contentious transference of authority from the US to Panama in the 1970s.
Work recently began on a substantial expansion effort that will allow the canal to accommodate modern cargo needs. hope that helped
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Gold rush and mining opportunities (silver in Nevada) The opportunity to work in the cattle industry; to be a “cowboy” Faster travel to the West by railroad; availability of supplies due to the railroad. The opportunity to own land cheaply under the Homestead Act.
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Option B, Spain arrested several Cubans it was believed to have caused the blast was true about the sinking of the USS Maine.
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Originally, the ship's disappearance, the USS Maine, prompted Spain to consider it blown up in a bay, near Havana. Yellow journalism was a trend that encouraged newspapers to sympathize with or encourage the cause of the Spanish revolution.
Nevertheless, the truth was that the engine of the ship was not functioning properly. This was discussed years after the fire in 1898.
The burning of the ship actually caused some people to want to have the USA to declare war on Spain as they killed the Americans on ship. Nonetheless, Spain didn't actually destroy the ship because of the incorrect information. The USA used the blast to wage war on Spain, and the Spanish-American War was won in 1898. It was the blast.