(A) new colonies had been acquired in Africa
(B) Spanish opposition to the canal had ended
(C) ** the United States navy could then move more quickly between oceans
(D) United States railroads could not transport enough manufactured goods
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -Americans knew they needed this to move ships from east to west quickly. If they did that, they would control power because they would control the oceans. The Canal was a geopolitical strategy to make the United States the most powerful nation on earth. Also, the economic impact was massive.
Concept note-2: -President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal-a trans-isthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
Concept note-3: -During the Spanish-American War, an American warship had steamed around the Cape from California to the Caribbean, igniting public imagination and providing an additional military justification for supporters of the canal, whose primary interest remained trade.
Concept note-4: -Need for a Canal : Spanish-American War demonstrated that the U.S. needed easier access by water between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. We needed to be able to send ships back and forth quickly between the two oceans instead of having 2 separate Naval Fleets.
Concept note-5: -The war made certain that a U.S.-built canal would cut through the Isthmus of Panama. The Panama Canal, linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was completed in 1914.