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Panama Canal

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

PANAMA CANAL

BY: CALISTA, TYLER, ZACH, LEVI,DANNY

FACTS ABOUT THE CANAL

  • The United States uses the canal the most
  • The canal transport 4% of world trade and 16% of total u.s. Borne trade
  • More than 60 million pounds of dynamite was used to excavate and construct the canal
  • In 1963 fluorescent lighting was installed allowing the canal to begin operating 24hrs
  • In 2008 , a Disney cruise ship paid the highest toll to date 330,000

HISTORY

  • The history of the Panama Canal goes back almost to the earliest explorers of America
  • The bridge was between north and South America
  • To create a water passage between the Atlantic and pacific
  • The earliest European colonists of Central America recognized this potential.
  • Today, the canal continues to be not only a viable commercial venture

WHY WE GAVE UP THE CANAL

  • The canal was given back to panama in 1999
  • President Jim Carter signed a treaty way back in 1977
  • The general of panama was very grateful
  • Panama would have total control

JIM CARTER TREATY

  • On September 7, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty
  • Neutrality Treaty promising to give control of the canal to the Panamanians by the year 2000.
  • It would be much faster to travel across the narrowest part of Panama.
  • Carter was able to achieve the two third majority for ratification of the treaty of 1977

PANAMA CANAL ACT

  • In 1902 president jimmy Carter paid forty million dollars to build the Panama Canal
  • The Panama Canal is 6miles through the Pacific
  • Panama Canal act of 1979 and the Carter treaty of 1977 worked hand in hand

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