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title: "What did the U.S. do that resulted in it building and controlling the Panama Canal?"  
description: "What did the U.S. do that resulted in it building and controlling the Panama Canal?"  
author: "Howard fuller"  
published: 2018-04-25  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41795/what-did-the-u-s-do-that-resulted-in-it-building-and-controlling-the-panama-canal  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What did the U.S. do that resulted in it building and controlling the Panama Canal? 

What did the U.S. do that resulted in it [building](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41777/what-did-the-british-offer-to-enslaved-african-americans-in-exchange-for-looting-and-burning-the-capitol-building-in-washington-d-c) and controlling the [Panama Canal](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42051/how-did-the-spanish-american-war-help-create-support-for-building-the-panama-canal)?


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