How Did The Americans Make The Panama Canal

In 1914 the Panama Canal was fully built and brought happiness to the world. But in 1880, the French tried to make a canal so the pacific and the atlantic oceans would meat. So how they did that was they just started to dig. They were moving the dirt and rocks on carts so they can take the rubble away from the construction. After a while it just became the same thing everyday, digging, taking loads away, and then just digging again. They did this for years and gave up after ten years. Then the Americans came in at 1903 and started were the French left of. The one thing the Americans did different was taking the loads of dirt and rocks on trains. This made them more successful. The American used machines to soil and rocks like it was nothing. Then they couldn’t have made it sea level since it would be almost impossible. So they made locks to elevate their boats to the next land of water until they finally meat to the sea.
There were problems such as yellow fever and malaria. These were diseases that got brought to the French and the Americans. The French had a really hard to with these disease. People were dieing because of these diseases. They did not know what to do and didn’t know how to make an antidote. People were scared of getting these diseases and didn’t want to work no more. That’s why the French didn’t finish the Panama Canal. The American new how to deal with these diseases. Although some people still died because they didn’t want to be treated. One other problem was that there were landslides. People were dieing from these landslides. They were trying to prevent these landslides but there was a lot of unexpected landslides. From that at least 1,500 people died from these