What were the motivations for creating the panama canal

They built the panama canal to get ships through quickly. Before the canal, ships had to go all the way around south america.

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i think to help trade. IDK

according to the quotation from booker t. washington's 1895 atlanta compromise speech.

in the great leap from slavery to freedom . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . we shall prosper . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor.

washington believed that  hard work had its own kind of dignity.

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