Mostly because of the inexperience of the engineers who had been entrusted with the tasks as most of them were professional lawyers. the length of the canal also cast more shadow of doubt on the undertaking besides the lack of sophisticated equipment for the engineering works.
It's the imitation of others that ate observed and modeled
13 states (the question is not complete?)
Slaves were not because i hate to say it they were black and black people were slaves
A. pay interest
banks make their clients pay interest, not the other way around