Construction
The full length of the Erie Canal and the cities that were on either end.
What is 363 miles and Buffalo to Albany (Troy)?
Carried passengers
What is a packet boat?
What were shovels, pickaxes, wheelbarrows, gunpowder, stump pullers?
The number of times the canal was expanded
What is 2?
A child age 8 - 10 that would help to remove large boulders and obstacles from the canal's path using explosives.
Who were the powder monkeys?
The waterways that the Erie Canal connected.
What are The Great Lakes: Lake Erie to the Hudson River?
(and eventually the Atlantic Ocean)
Carried cargo
What is a freighter or working boat?
Generates power from the flow of water
What is a hydroelectric dam?
Two groups of people that were treated unfairly during the construction of the canal.
Who are Native Americans and immigrants?
Who was the mule driver?
The governor who started construction.
Who was Dewitt Clinton?
A cheaper boat for passengers
What is a line boat?
A manmade lake that stores water behind a hydroelectric dam.
The reason the canal was built.
To connect midwestern farmers with new markets to sell their raw materials, and to open NYC markets to people in the west with their manufactured goods.
What was TRADE!?
The people who looked at the land and decided the best route and methods for the canal.
Who were the surveyors?
The city they started construction in.
What is Rome, N.Y.?
Two reasons why boats were better than horse and buggy
What are cheaper and faster?
Flight of 5 Locks is in this city.
What is Lockport, NY?
The wedding of the waters
What was the celebration when Dewitt Clinton poured a bucket of water from Lake Erie into the Atlantic Ocean after being the first person to travel the full length of the canal?
Determined how much money the cargo boats had to pay at certain points along the canal.
Who were the weigh masters?
Three obstacles during the construction of the canal.
What are diseases, cost of labor, and geographic changes (mountains, boulders, swamps, etc).
The warning yelled to passengers on the roof of the boat when they were approaching a bridge.
What is "Low Bridge"!?
A natural wonder of the world located just 20 miles from the flight of locks.
What is Niagara Falls?
2 positive and 2 negative effects of the Erie Canal
What are increased trade, faster and cheaper transportation, spread of ideas, underground railround route...
What are displacement of natives, mistreatment of immigrants, spread of disease...
The people that worked at the sites were boats needed to be lowered or raised using water to avoid large elevation changes.
Who were the Lock Tenders?