How it was built
The panama canal was made by digging or dynamiting a big hole through a mountain where water streams. The Panama Canal they used the lock system. A lock system is system that can carry up 85 pounds of stuff. The Panama Canal used a lot of people so it met their needs.
Impact
The Panama Canal is a faster way to get boats to where they need to go. The Panama Canal is a way to get more ships through the area in a day so there is no boat traffic in the water of Panama. The people who built the canal got little money while Ben Franklin got a lot of money towards the canal.
Obstacles
The canal had many obstacles they had to go through to make it but they didn’t stop because of a disease. They had the yellow fever that