Which of the following best explains the reasons for building a canal across the Isthmus of Panama? Question 1 options: to help make Panama rich by uniting the eastern part with the western part of the country to shorten sailing time between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans to help extend French colonial power in the Americas to make Panama independent of its former ruler, Colombia HELP PL I"LL MARK BRAINLEIST

Explanation:

It was originally intended to shorten the sailing time between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Were it not there, a ship would have to travel to the lowest tip of South America and back up again. It would extend any trip by not a trivial amount of time.

both are true, the congress does have the power to create banks, even if this power is not specifically described in the constitution, since there is nothing restricting it and there is power given to the congress to make "all laws which shall be necessary and proper". maryland was not allowed to tax a branch of the national bank operating there, and the supreme court decided that no state could. both of these topics were discussed in a decision of the mcculloch v. maryland case in 1819.