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30 Cards in this Set
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4 Why was there so much “positive thinking going on in the USA at the time?
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The car had just become popularThe airplane had just been inventedThe transcontinental railroadThe brooklyn bridge.
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For how many years had people been thinking about building a canal across the isthmus
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400 years |
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Who first tried to build the canal |
the french |
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Put the building of the canal in an economic context.
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we are more focused with our trading with asia
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Colombia said no because of their consitution to let merica interfere |
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When did the panama canal building start? |
1904 |
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What was the biggest problem facing wallace at the time |
where do you put the dirt |
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Why was John Stevens qualified to head the canal project.
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He had done a lot of building in the rockies. Had the most experience with rockey building.
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What machines would be vital to the canal project?
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The trains/railroad
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What two innovations really helped the project move along better.
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A track moving machine (boom). A plow machine that would help by pushing dirt off cars to empty them faster
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What was ingenious as he attacked the culebra cut.
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One side goes up empty and then the other goes down full .
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Why was the Chagres River a huge part of the problem?
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It would be flooded 6 months out of the year.
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What specific engineering problems were associated with building a lock canal?
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The size of the locks were the size of three football fields. Massive!
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Be familiar with the division of labor at the Canal project.
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White people got the more skilled jobs. Unskilled labor was for blacks. Biggest part of building the canal
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Where did most of the workers come from?
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Barbados
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Describe the “panama man” Why did he exist
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was a black man who was all like come on in people! help the cause!! He existed to sway the people to join the canal building.
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1906 how many workers were working on the canal?
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24000 most of them were from barbados
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Be familiar with a brief biography of Coloenl William Gogas
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He was a doctor in the frontier. He caught yellow fever but he got immune. makes it his life quest to eradicate the disease.
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What had Gorgas done in cuba, relative to yellow fever.
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While in cuba he comes up with a theory that yellow fever stems from mosquitoes.
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Why was the visit by Dr. Alexander Lambert to TR so important
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he was very influential to TR’s ego and convinced him to go with gorga’s plan.
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Describe the steps taken by Gorgas to eliminate the threat from mosquitoes.
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puts oil on the water so the water so the larvae cant breathe. They fumigate the sleeping quarters, they put screens up on windows, cover all the open water.
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9 Why did TR need to go on a public relations trip to the Canal zone?
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The newspapers were starting to complain.TR took this all very personally.
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Why dd stevens quit? How did TR react
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He became tired he felt like the project was insignificant. (just a big ditch)TR was furious
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Be familiar with George Washington Goethals
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Was in the Army Corps of EngineersWas an expert in hydraulics
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Demonstrate the Goethals deserved the title Czar of Panama.
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He fired those who were going on strike
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By 1907, what was one problem associated with the white workforce?
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Allmoast everybody went home
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How much concrete was used.
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5 million bags of concrete.
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How were the locks and machinery powered? Where did the power come from?
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The locks were powered by electricity ( a 40 horsepower engine). The power came from hydroelectric energy.
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How was president RW a participant in the canals opening ?
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Remote control explosion from the white house. Pres w wilson pressed the button that blew up the dam. Represented the country building the canal.
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How much did the canal cost?
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350$ Million; 5,000 died
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