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The Congressional Decision To Build The Panama Canal: The Influence Of Senators John Tyler Morgan, Marcus Alonzo Hanna And Others, And The Role Of The Walker Report, Andrew Scott Merrifield

Dissertations and Theses

Throughout most of the modern history of the Western hemisphere, explorers, engineers and merchants have been interested in finding or building a waterway that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. By the early part of the sixteenth century most of these people had settled their attention on the Central American Isthmus. Several major commercial nations showed an interest in the project at one time or another, including France, Spain, Great Britain and the United States.

Serious attention to building a canal started in the late nineteenth century with two areas, southern Nicaragua and central Panama becoming the two most …