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Project on Titanic and Panama Canal (Imperialism)
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Front Page Term 2 Project
The Emerging America
Globe 10/20/13
Titanic Sinks!
The Titanic has sunk! As of 2:20 in the morning (April 15th, 1912), the ship sunk on its maiden voyage to New York. After colliding with an iceberg at 11:40 on the night of April 14th, The ship continued to sink for three hours straight.
1,500 people lost their lives. Only 1/3 of the people on the ship got to where they were going, and they had to come face to face with death to do so. They had to wait 2 hours for the closest ship to come save them. By then, most had already developed hypothermia from the -2 degree water.
Fast forward 74 years, and the first people will have found the titanic. Much is still missing, because when sinking the ship broke into two pieces and spread many miles across the ocean floor. Researchers continue to find more and more pieces to the "puzzle" of fully understanding about the tragic turn the titanic took.
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal has been built! America gained acquisition to the Canal in 1904. Finally, 10 years later, the Canal has been finished. After pouring 387 million dollars into it, Navy troops can now navigate quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
The Canal is good for the United States because it gives it a look of power. The U.S. is the country that could finally connect two oceans once separated by land, and can now allow and reject people coming through the Canal.
However, the canal was not an easy build. It has in fact been two years overdue, and too much money has been put into it. Three main things that held up the construction of the Canal were organization, sanitation, and engineering. The construction was not very well organized at first, there were very poor sanitary conditions and much disease, and engineering went through trial and error to find a solution to build the Canal. But, despite these hold ups, the Canal has opened on October 10, 1913.