Thesis
The need for a canal to meet the demands of travel and trade had become a phenomenon in central America which meant a great amount of help from around the world including the main leading force and provider, the United States, who was granted permission to build the Panama Canal by Panama's ambassador at the time, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, through the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty. Throughout the making of the Panama Canal, the workers, Roosevelt's influence, and obstacles including disease were major factors that provided support for this innovative project and factors that certainly could have decided otherwise.