Erie Canal

By the 1830s, the American people started to focus on innovations in some areas of transportation and politics. The Erie Canal’s creation allowed for items and viewpoints to be reached quicker to more places and people. New political parties allowed for new ideas and improvements to the American government system in hopes to include more people. All these innovations seemed as though they had the best intentions for all citizens, but that was not the case. Workers were cast off and not given…

or negative. In The Artificial River The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862, composed via Carol Sheriff, there are a wide range of cases of Catch 22s. Towns at first observed the Canal negatively affecting them, however acknowledged it could offer assistance. The Canal accommodated speedier transportation, however on account of a crash would set aside a long opportunity to recuperate from. Additionally businesspeople profited from the Canal, however other lost a considerable…

Great Lakes are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located in northeastern North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River. Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth, containing 21% of the world's surface fresh water by volume. The total surface is, and the total volume is . Due to their sea-like characteristics the five Great Lakes…

to come, followed by canals, steamboats and railroads.…

to achieve greater economic outcomes. Needs for improvements become increasingly linked to transportation, infrastructure, and communication. By the nineteenth century, the transportation industry underwent drastic construction to develop roads, canals, and railroads to help improve trading networks abroad. While these expansions largely improved urbanization with multiple benefits; compliance was challenging because of social and political issues. Throughout the industrial revolution,…

creation of the Erie Canal had big impacts. The Erie Canal helped connect the Western markets. Many other states then went to create their own canals to link themselves to the rest of America. These canals allowed for quicker and cheaper transportation as well as opened up more opportunity for businesses and stores alongside the canal to open up. These canals had a more profound impact on the North and West as they were located mostly in the North and Midwest areas. Railroads joined the canal as…

improved with the advancement and invention of roads, canals, steamboats, and railroads. One improvement made in the Industrial Revolution was the advancement of roads. In 1817, “Congress authorized the construction of the National Road which…

too slow and expensive. Eventually, in 1817, the New York legislature put a financing system into place for the creation of the Erie Canal, a solution that will eventually lead to connecting the world. This was a three-hundred and sixty-four mile waterway connecting the Hudson River to Lake Erie. This sprouted a national canal boom. In the 1850s, railroads joined the canals as another passageway for economic growth. This was all part of the Market Revolution, an economic transformation. This…

diminished its standing in the newly formed nation. In 1810 Dewitt Clinton, the current mayor of New York City, had the insane idea to connect New York to Lake Erie via the Mohawk Valley the only western pass in the Appalachian Mountains. This seemingly delusional idea would require four surveyors to learn to build canals by building canals. Required the re-invention of hydraulic cement, and create the foundation for New York State to be the largest port in the new country, and later to earn the…

economic changes called by historians “the market revolution” transformed the United States. Innovations in transportation and communication sparked these changes. In the colonial era, technology had barely advanced—ships did not become faster, no canals were built, and manufacturing was done by hand. Roads were scarce and slow. In 1800, most farm families were not tied to the marketplace, used little cash, and produced much of what they needed at home. It was nearly impossible for farmers far…