The Panama Canal Part 6

The Panama Canal - Part Six

I wanted to read about the Panama Canal because it’s my aunt’s dream to take a cruise on the Panama Canal before she dies, and she bought me a book for my 25th Birthday written about it. The Panama Canal is one of the most amazing and important pieces of construction ever built The Panama Canal was built in the early to mid-1500’s, however there was some controversy’s related to the Panama Canal opening it up to enemies or other workers.

The Panama Canal was a world record project and a worldwide project. The Panama Canal had workers making high wages of 1.50$ a day. There was collusion in Panama and there was even women and children working on the Canal. The Panama Canal had workers from around the world, even women and children worked on it, there was economic collusion in Panama over the Panama Canal and there was high death rates due to Amazonian diseases.

People that worked on the Panama Canal mostly made $1.50 a day. The Money of the Island became depopulated the areas, and their demographics were left behind to their women and children. The housing, livestock, and land rose through peasants- even women and children did work on the Panama Canal which caused the birthrate to fall. Panama invested in its financial future and brought huge changes to their economy. Panama wanted to build the Canal to open trade routes, military routes and

There was collusion over housing for the builders with it costing at least 100,000 dollars and there was also collusion over the over food supplies as well. In 1879 Congress in Paris, had a problem with they were formidable over their French Engineers. The French were only able to excavate 660,000 cubic meters when they originally said they would excavate 5 million cubic meters. The Panama Canal had high amounts of death in there hospitals and the number was even higher out of the hospitals.

Among the workers of the Panama Canal, they were over 400 deaths of Yellow Fever or Dengue a year. Many of the workers were from contractors who did not send their workers to the hospital. The death total in 1883 was closer to 1300 rather than 400. The Americans said that the American canal should be the work of Americans

The Panama Canal was a world creating/cooperating project where they built a worldwide/civilization enhancing project.  The Panama Canal came at a great human cost with 1200 people dying per a year in the hospitals from Amazonian diseases and even more died and were put in graves.