In order to open the country west of the Appalachian Mountains to settlers and to offer a cheap and safe way to carry produce to a market. The Erie Canal was built as a passageway from the eastern cities through the Appalachian mountains. It was a trade waterway meant to bring resources back from and goods to the frontier.
The canal was important with the western developments and transportation among the vastly growing united states. it was a cheaper, easier way to transport goods down the stream or across the country.
The New York State Legislature voted to fund the Erie Canal because Dewitt Clinton thought that the canal would increase business to New York. The Canal paid for itself in two years.
In the 1780s, Washington organized a company, the Patowmack Canal Company, that sought to build a canal following the Potomac River. The canal was built, yet it was limited in its function and never lived up to Washington's dream.
It was created because they had no other way to transportate goods, now remember this was in the 1700`s
The Erie Canal was built so that goods from the Midwest could reach New York City. As a byproduct, immigrants could get from New York City to farm in the Midwest.
It was needed because they had no other way to transportate goods.
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Dewitt Clinton made the Erie canal possible by helping fund it. Irish immigrants built the Erie canal.
Lake Erie. The canal was named the Erie Canal.
The Erie Canal was built in New York State in 1825. The colonies became states in 1776.
The colonies had already become the United States when the Erie Canal was built.
No the Erie Canal did not join the Ohio River. But New York was not the only state that built canals. The state of Ohio also built canals. The Miami and Erie Canal went to the Ohio River. The Erie and Ohio Canal also reached the Ohio River. Neither of these canals were as successful as the Erie Canal.
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The Erie Canal.
Yes there were other canals built because of the success of the Erie Canal. Canada built one and Ohio built several.
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.
New York state built the Erie Canal. The state paid over 7 million dollars to construct the canal and it paid for itself in two years.
The American Revolution started in 1776. The Erie Canal was started in 1817.
The Erie Canal is in New York state.