Ohio and Erie Canal

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…

River and named the spot Caldersburgh after himself. Caldersburgh was renamed Roscoe in 1830 in honor of William Roscoe. There was construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal in the 1820s and Monticello landed August 21, 1830 in Roscoe.”(Roscoe Village) Roscoe was the fourth largest wheat port. Dawes Arboretum is a major tourist attraction for ohio, it is a place full of people touring it's beautiful property. Dawes Arboretum has eight different landscape as the author list. Glacier Ridge, Red…

dramatically improved national mobility. New and improved transportation technology made it easier, cheaper, and quicker to transport the raw materials and finished products across America thanks to first national roads, innovation of steamboats, new canal development, and finally the railroad revolution. Americans were aware that improvement of transportation network would increase land values, encourage domestic and foreign trade, and strengthen the American economy. The need for…

traveled across Lake Erie. The people who lived in the Cleveland area were the first ones in Ohio to contract cholera. This disease was more virulent in the cities because these places had poor sanitation systems.…

Traveling Across Time As the United States was created with the writing of the Constitution, a bond was formed that connected each and every state. Now there was a need to create a physical connection within the states, attaching them to one another, and pushing the new founded country into the frontier. Means of transportation had nowhere to go but up, seeing that few people owned horses and most people, especially the poor, walked to their destinations. Wagon trails were also spanned across…

The market revolution is a term used to describe the increase of the exchange of goods and services in market transaction. In the first few decades of the nineteenth century, the transportation system was limited. The great rivers west of the Appalachians could not connect with the western famers to eastern markets since they flowed north to south. The roads were poor, expensive to maintain and horse-drawn wagons had limited capacity. So how were the farmers supposed to turn a profit from their…

First Railroads The first locomotive in America was called the “Sturbridge Lion” that was imported from England for use for the Delaware and Hudson canal Railroad Company. The engine arrived in New York on May 17, 1829. The first locomotive built in America for actual service on a railroad was for the Charleston and Augusta railroad company. It was built it New York City and immediately after the engine was finished it was placed on the railroad. The first experiment with the train was made in…

HOW DID THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT TRANSFORM AMERICA? American Westward Movement is the process that people from the settled regions of the United States to lands farther west. The great west means stretching from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, and it was subdivided into two sections: the territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains and the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast. This westward movement, across what was often called the American frontier, was of enormous…

In Seventeen eighty-eight the United States constitution was adopted. Americans now had protected rights and liberties and they elected their government. In America, democracy changed the social economic and political equality. This became a way of life for many living on the American frontier. Americans were happy to be free but their view of freedom was changing. What changer their view? The market revolution, the population moving to the west and the rise of the political democracy. These…

Governor William Hull as brigadier general of what would become the north western Army of the United States. Hull’s young Army of one thousand two hundred volunteers was already being recruited by Governor Return Jonathan Miegs of Ohio. The recruits were assembled in Dayton, Ohio and serve in Detroit While resting his men momentarily at Fort Necessity, General Hull(American) received word that Major General Issac Brock (British) had arrived at Fort Malden by boat. Fort Malden is approximately…