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Chapter 4 How the US Obtained the Panama Canal

the California Gold Rush of 1849 that this dream began to become a reality. In six torturous years, Americans built a railroad across Colombia's isthmus of Panama to connect with two steamship lines — one on the Atlantic and the other on the Pacific. With several thousand railroad workers dying from their

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