Erie Canal Research Paper

Do you know how the Erie Canal affected the area surrounding it. The Erie Canal began in 1817 and opened entirely in 1825, the Erie Canal is considered the engineering marvel of the 19th century. How did the Erie Canal change the US? The Erie Canal affected the US by providing better trade to the middle of the US and Great Lakes. Also the Erie Canal provided more, safer trade routes. Another thing the Erie Canal helped was the population, and with more population comes more money and with. More money comes more free time. More free time then transitions to helping the area around the Erie Canal, which leads to women's rights and religion.

Trade is a big part of the Erie Canal, because it allows supplies from Asia and Europe to get not only to the East Coast but the middle of the US. Something that supports this is the Wedding of Waters by Jesse Hawley. This supports trade because in the text it stats, "The trade of almost all the lakes in the North America, the most of which flowing through the canal, would center at New York for their common mart",(Hawley line 2). Also the bushels of wheat section on page 6 stats that in 1841 there where 1 million bushels of wheat transported on the Erie Canal. …show more content…
Something that supports this is The Wedding Waters, because in the text it stats, "Transportation has been a formidable challenge for most of human history. Villages just twenty miles apart once seemed far away from each other"(Burnstein line1-2). Also in picture 2 it stats, " A bullhead boat, the J.J Belden, is locking through at an unidentified location on the Erie Canal"(picture two). Last of all, in chart one it shows the method, amount of time, and the cost per a ton, for both the dirt road and the canal. This is how the Erie Canal affected the transportation around it. The last paragraph will be about the population and how the Canal affected