France first attempted to build the canal in the 1870s. He left quite a few diseases and financial problems behind. Ferdinand de Lessups was the engineer who designed the Suez Canal.
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<span>They believed that only their elected
officials and not the British parliament had the right to raise taxes. The
colonists were opposed to taxation without representation and perceived it as
tyranny. As a result, they begun to agitate for independence and their rights. </span>
