Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Construction

A photo (ca. 1906) showing men laboring on the canal. Many of these individuals were
probably West Indian laborers who migrated for the work opportunity.


It is often hard for students to grasp the actual size, and therefore the impact, of an undertaking such as the Canal. The Canal Zone was ten miles wide ( ve on each side) and stretched fty miles long (Greene 38).

The dirt dredged from the Zone was enough to create a series of pyramids alongside the Canal. For additional media sources, it is recommended that educators search the Library of Congress's catalog of images and/or utilize videos documenting the construction, such as A&E's `Panama Canal'(1994).

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