Inland port cities grew in the Midwest along the Ohio River, called the Gateway to the West. The Great Lakes provided inland ports in the Midwest.
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Because hurricanes only form over tropical ocean water. They can't make it very far inland.
Coastal people built their villages by the beaches to be closer to their food transportation and traders. The same reason most inland villages, today's cities, are found along water ways such as rivers.
It has a high heat capacity
the first major cities in the united states developed along waterways or either water routes.
water routes
they are located along bodies of water
they could crop more goods without them spoiling
A recess, such as a bay or cove along a cost