HISTORY
IMPERIALISM ASIA
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Building the canal, however, would prove to be no easy feat as the conditions at the Isthmus were among the worst the world had to offer. Workers at the Isthmus had no choice but to work in brutal heat, rain, loud, unsanitary, and unsafe conditions often for little pay, being even lower if they were a minority.
Detailed explanation-3: -But the project, which employed more than 40, 000 laborers, also took immense liberties with human life. Thousands of workers were killed.