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The Erie Canal made it faster and quicker to travel from Lake Erie to the Hudson River. It brought food from the Midwest to New York and it was a way for immigrants coming to New York to settle in the Midwest.
Many of the immigrants that traveled the Erie Canal ended up in cities like Cleveland and Chicago. Some of the workers of the Erie Canal also worked on canals in Ohio and the Illinois Michigan canal near Chicago.
The Illinois and Michigan Canal was opened in 1848 and closed in 1933.
The Erie Canal was used for boats. Back then, they used horse and buggy. It was much quicker to go by boat. So they built the Erie Canal. They used to used it for traveling. Nowadays, it is used mostly for tours.
The Illinois and Michigan canal connected Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River. It was used to transport grain, lumber, and stone.
The canal made the trip between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans quicker.
Dewitt Clinton made the Erie canal possible by helping fund it. Irish immigrants built the Erie canal.
In 1848
In 1848
It was used for traveling and transportating goods.
A lot of farmers lived there and they needed water for there crops!
The Panama canal