(A) The economic power of the United States was greatly strengthened.
(B) Spain went to war with the United States to gain control of the Canal.
(C) ** It tremendously reduced the travel time between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
(D) Revolutionaries in Panama began a decades-long uprising to drive out the United States.
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -Answer and Explanation: The greatest impact that the Panama Canal had was to shorten the length of ocean voyages between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Before the canal opened in 1914, ships had to sail around the southern tip of South America in order to sail from one ocean to the other.
Concept note-2: -Panama Canal Authority Reduces Time Vessels Take to Travel the Canal by more than 16 Percent. Panama City, Panama – The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced today that it has reduced by 16.6 percent, the time a vessel spends in Canal waters until it completes its transit through the waterway.
Concept note-3: -Therefore, the Suez Canal allows saving between 7 to 10 days of shipping time depending on the ship’s speed. The Panama Canal, completed in 1914, considerably shortened the maritime distances between the American East and West coasts by 13, 000 km.
Concept note-4: -The Panama Canal (PC) is a narrow isthmus approximately 65 km between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The canal was completed on August 15, 1914, becoming an essential route connecting vessels sailing from the West and East coasts of the United States and the LAC regions (Cho et al. 2019).