| A | B |
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| why Panama considered a deadly place | tropical diseases, extreme heat, torrential rains,mosquitoes |
| diseases faced | typhoid, yellow fever and malaria |
| Ferdinand DeLesseps | Frenchman who first tried to build the Panama Canal |
| William Gorgas | U.S. Army doctor who rid Panama of mosquitoes and yellow fever |
| George Goethals | U.S. Army General finished the canal after Stevens quit |
| DeLesseps tried to build the Panama Canal like he did the ___ | Suez Canal |
| John Stevens | chief engineer for U.S.- quit before finishing it |
| used the "lock and lake" system | John Stevens |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President of U.S. funded canal after French went bankrupt |
| why French overmatched in building canal | financially, technically, and medically |
| how French overmatched financially | didn't realize how much it would cost; went bankrupt |
| how French overmatched technically | trouble digging the canal, premature explosions; wanted to build "sea-level" canal |
| how French overmatched medically | unprepared to deal with diseases carried by mosquitoes |
| used only calculations to build canal | French engineers |
| would improvise if needed to build canal | American engineers |
| amount of money French spent before going bankrupt | $300 million |
| amount of money U.S. spent | $375 million |
| why building canal unique for U.S. times | no corruption in building it even though U.S. full of corruption during that time |
| 9-mile cut through Culebra Mt. | Culebra Cut |
| why Culebra Cut dangerous | couldn't cut through solid rock mt; premature dynamite explosions; rock slides |
| how workers "classed" | whites-engineers and bosses; African Americans did manual labor |
| how workers paid | Americans paid in gold; others in silver |
| wnated to dig out entire canal and make it sea level | Ferdinand DeLesseps |
| was U.S. segregated society during this time | yes- whites "above" rest of people |
| how building of transcontinental railroad influenced building of canal | John Stevens involved in design of both |
| why canal needed by U.S. | cut off 8,000 miles travel from one side of U.S. to other |
| how Spanish-American War influenced U.S. to build canal | took U.S. battleship 67 days to go from Washington State to Cuba; war amost over |
| U.S. ship sent to Cuba during Spanish American War | U.S. Battleship Oregon |
| length of Panama Canal | 51 miles |
| time it takes to go through canal | 9 hours |
| distance canal saves in traveling from coast to coast in U.S. | 8,000 miles |
| called the "highway between oceans" | Panama Canal |
| first President to ever travel outside of U.S. | President Theodore Roosevelt |
| why President took trip out of U.S. | to see construction of Panama Canal |
| when Panama Canal finished | 1914 |
