The devastation and instability caused by the…

The devastation and instability caused by the war in Nicaragua, as well as the opening of a railroad across Panama, adversely affects the country's transit route.

After only a few years of operation in the early 1850s, the transit route is closed for five years from 1857 to 1862, and the entire effort will subsequently be abandoned in April 1868.

Despite the failure of the transit plan, United States interest in building a canal across Nicaragua will persist throughout most of the nineteenth century.

By 1902, however, there will be increasing support from the administration of United States president Theodore Roosevelt to build a transisthmian canal in Panama.

The opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 will effectively end serious discussion of a canal across Nicaragua.