Yes it is true that the Cumberland Road and the Erie Canal improved early American travel.
Yes both improved transportation.
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The Cumberland Road and the Erie Canal where the first methods of transportation. As you can see obviously the Cumberland is a road and the Erie Canal is a canal. They were both also originally built by the government.
The original Erie Canal had 83 locks. The canal was improved and the number of locks went down to 72 locks. The canal was improved again and now there are only 35 locks.
Both the Erie Canal and the Transcontinental Railroad made an impact in American history connecting our nation. Both made transportation faster and improved businesses.
The benefits of canal travel as to land travel, sea travel or even ocean travel is that it usually has alot of places to buy and sell things along the way. During American history, the Erie canal was used as an economical hot spot to encourage trade. During the industrial revolution, different cites along the Erie canal specialised in different goods and on the Erie canal traders from foreign European countries could trade and make money.
* The Trans-continental railroad. * The Erie Canal. * The steamboat on the Mississippi River.
The Panama canal connect the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. If there was no canal a ship would have to travel all the way around the southern tip of South America.
Chesapeak and ohio canal.
The benefits of canal travel as to land travel, sea travel or even ocean travel is that it usually has alot of places to buy and sell things along the way. During American history, the Erie canal was used as an economical hot spot to encourage trade. During the industrial revolution, different cites along the Erie canal specialised in different goods and on the Erie canal traders from foreign European countries could trade and make money.
The most successful canal in American history, i believe is the Panama Canal
All-American Canal Bridge was created in 1939.
The Suez Canal.