Section One The problem was the great 12,000 mile distance to go around South America to get to from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean or vice versa. The solution was to make canal to cut the distance down significantly. Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovered the Pacific coast in the 1513. Many famous people including Benjamin Franklin suggested that a route could be made through Panama to shorten the path. However, others people disagreed that it …showed first 75 words of 2442 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2442 total…suffering of the less paid black laborers. About 4500 of the 5609 workers that died were black. Bibliography Works Cited The American President 18 Oct. 2000 Britanica Encyclopedia 21 Oct. 2000 Kiger, Patrick. Discovery Channel 16 Oct. 2000 Knapp, Herbert and Mary. Red, White, and Blue Paradise. New York: Hartcourt Brace Joanovich, 1984. A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama. Nova. 1987. McCullough, David. The Path Between The Seas. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. Panama Canal Authority 16 Oct. 2000 Panama Canal. A&E Home Video. 1994.