How exactly did the Erie Canal change America? If it is located in New York, how would people transport all the way across the world? It takes time and shipping cargo. FedEx and USPS are how you get what you ordered online to your house. It is like you ordering a new college book from New York, but you live in California. The Erie Canal changed America by transportation, social changes, and use of time and costs. Transportation was a big deal back then because that’s how they got from place to place. They used the Erie Canal to go from New York to Ohio, and much more. In the packet of documents, chart 2 “...shows the amount that the state of Ohio spent (expenditures) and how much money was earned (revenue) due to the Erie Canal.” In the year of
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They spent way more than they earned which costed them more money. Peter L. Burnstein said in the short story, “The Wedding of the Waters,” “Transportation has been a formidable challenge for most of human history. Villages just twenty miles apart once seemed so far away from each other.” They were uncomfortable traveling over long distances because it reminded them that the great pilgrimages of the Middle Ages were possible only because of safety in numbers. Jesse Hawley said in “The Genesee Messenger” that “This port, already of the first commercial consequence in the United States, would shortly after, be left without a competition in trade, except by that of New Orleans.” Social changes in the Erie Canal changed America also. Womens rights were forbidden because females wanted to be preacher. The source from “Female Preaching in Early Nineteenth-Century America” says, “Most female preachers belonged to the lower or
They spent way more than they earned which costed them more money. Peter L. Burnstein said in the short story, “The Wedding of the Waters,” “Transportation has been a formidable challenge for most of human history. Villages just twenty miles apart once seemed so far away from each other.” They were uncomfortable traveling over long distances because it reminded them that the great pilgrimages of the Middle Ages were possible only because of safety in numbers. Jesse Hawley said in “The Genesee Messenger” that “This port, already of the first commercial consequence in the United States, would shortly after, be left without a competition in trade, except by that of New Orleans.” Social changes in the Erie Canal changed America also. Womens rights were forbidden because females wanted to be preacher. The source from “Female Preaching in Early Nineteenth-Century America” says, “Most female preachers belonged to the lower or