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How did the construction of the Erie canal improve transportion in the United States in the 1820s?
helped boats and ships move more quickley
Why did Governor DE Witt Clinton want the Erie canal be built?
Boats could move through it at speeds of up to five miles per hour. Shipping times and costs were greatly decreased. The Governor saw the possibility of New York becoming more important and richer. He was right. The Erie Canal paid for itself in two years.
How did the Erie Canal and the transcontinental railroad lead to economic growth in the US?
It allowed for more people to move westward, which in turn brought more raw materials to the east and finished products back to west. It increased trade and fostered economic growth.
How does the panama canal move boats from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
48 mile man made canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Why Governor Dewitt Clinton want the Erie to be built?
Boats could move through it at speeds of up to five miles per hour. Shipping times and costs were greatly decreased. The Governor saw the possibility of New York becoming more important and richer. He was right. The Erie Canal paid for itself in two years.
What did the locks of the Erie Canal do?
The locks of the Erie Canal service barges and recreational boaters by raising and lowering them so they can get through the canal. The 34 locks separate the Hudson River at Waterford with the Niagara River near Buffalo.
What is the effect of the Erie Canal on the development of the west?
The goods that were coming in from other countries around the world could get to the west. The canal also let more people move to the west because it made traveling easier.
What is the name given to the lower barrier of a canal lock?
Gate is the name given to the lower barrier of a canal lock. A Canal lock is used to lower and raise the water to move boats along a waterway.
How did people move west?
The preferred method was via water, using canals and rivers. Many took the Erie Canal into Lake Erie and the Great Lakes to move west. Wagons and carts were used, often pulled by oxen, as they could later be used to plow fields. Later on trains transported many settlers to the west.
How did the Erie Canal help NYC grow?
The Erie Canal was the first water link that connected the East Coast seaports to the Great Lakes. It was opened in 1825, long before any railroads existed. Prior to the Canal, the only way to move goods to the upper Midwest bordering the Lakes, was by overland by cartage (expensive and very slow.)It connected the Hudson River near Albany NY, by water to Lake Erie near Buffalo NY.New York City, being at the mouth of the Hudson was the ideal freight transfer point for westbound freight. Thus the Port of New York grew veryrapidly after the opening of the Canal.
What is a canal and why is it useful?
A canal is a system using man dug trenches filled with water to be used to move boats from water body to water body or up to a city where a port may be built. thus allowing a greater volume of goods to be moved.
Why was the Erie Canal needed in New York state?
Farmers from Ohio and other parts of the Midwest needed to move their crops to the East Coast. It took too long to haul large amounts of crops so many would make alcohol out of their crops to reduce the volume. But people needed flour. Travel by water is cheaper so the Erie Canal made it affordable to send corn and wheat via the canal and flour mills in Rochester would send the flour to New York City.
