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9 Cards in this Set
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Census |
The official count of a population |
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Turnpikes |
Toll roads |
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Robert Fulton |
Was hired to develop a steamboat to carry cargo and passengers up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany |
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Hudson River |
River flowing through New York State |
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Albany |
Capitol of New York State located in the Hudson Valley |
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Canal |
An artificial waterway |
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Erie canal |
A 363-mile canal built by many thousands of laborers, many of them Irish immigrants. From Albany on the Hudson, to Buffalo on Lake Erie |
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Locks |
Separate compartments where water levels were raised or lowered |
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Lake Erie |
One of the five great Lakes between Canada and the US |
