Erie Canal

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There are two major canal system in Ohio, the Miami and Erie Canal and the Ohio and Erie Canal. Both canals start at Lake Erie and go south to the Ohio river. Work began on these canals in 1825. The Ohio and Erie canal’s construction, in the eastern part of Ohio, finished in 1833, but it would take the state and it workers another twelve years to finish the Miami and Erie canal, to the west. The canals faced many challenges after completion. They would often flood damaging the walls, locks, and…

Crafted from a vast well of historical evidence and text, The Artificial River, not only highlights the engineering feat in the construction of the Erie Canal, but masterfully weaves in a great era of change in the United States including burgeoning commercial growth, new forms of mechanical innovations, and the social shift of the polity of a nation headed towards civil war. The author of the book, Carol Sheriff, immaculately portrays the arduous yet rewarding project that would shift…

in early America wasn’t as easily accomplished as it is today. It was difficult to transport people, much less products, anywhere. For that reason, everyone agreed that a better means of transportation was necessary. The development of roads and canals had an impact on many things in early America. They affected the environment, speed of travel, new destinations, economic growth, and western settlement. The new and improved roads in America vastly influenced the country. In the…

way of getting around were drastically improved as the buildings of canals, roads and railroads began. These new methods of transportation created fast, more efficient, money flow in the economy and simpler routes for travel. The 1800’s positively affected the United States due to the creation of railroads, roads and canals. The creation of the canals in the 1800’s greatly improved the economy. For example, the Erie Canal was a major addition to the field of transportation. After being…

to expand and most importantly, become more easy and efficient. The surveying of the Erie Canal also played a big part in America’s expansion, because of the growing produce and goods transportation. The Erie Canal was found to be not only a “360-mile ribbon of water...and an engineering marvel” but it also “transported goods at one-tenth the previous fee in less than half the previous time”(Source E, The Erie Canal). This changes the course of American goods transportation, because now, many…

In the early 19th century there was an economic boom called the “Market Revolution.” There are many factors that took place in the late 1700s and early 1800s that contributed to the beginning of the market revolution, the cotton industry and cotton gin, the population growth and expansion of the United States, and the transportation revolution and industrial revolution. Farmers would produce crops for their families and they would have surpluses of the crops as well which they sold in local…

Canals are narrow and long channels of water that were typically man made. One of the most famous waterways was the Erie Canal proposed by a politician and naturalist, DeWitt Clinton. It spans from Albany to Lake Erie using the Mohawk River and few other small rivers to transport small boats pulled by mule or oxen on either side. Eventually, steam boat technology progressed enough, allowing them to float in the 4 foot deep canal. Once the 40 foot wide canal was dug, it connected…

tides, and downstream currents. Steamboats also allowed the South and the West to be opened up more in depth. Canals were the waterways in America. Canals, first used by Dewitt Clinton, helped get steamboats across America to different docks. One of the most well-known and important canals in the United States at the time was the Erie Canal, which was first proposed in 1807. The Erie Canal was constructed from 1817 to 1825. The production of George Stephenson’s invention, the railroad, caused…