Original Canal
The original name for the Erie Canal?
What is Clinton's Ditch?
The author who described the dress of men and women in Rochester.
Who is Basil Hall?
The year construction began on the Erie Canal.
What is 1817?
The fastest and cheapest way to transport wares.
What is Water?
The state the Erie Canal was located.
What is New York?
The year the Erie Canal was completed.
What is 1825?
Used to move packet boats on the Erie Canal.
What is mules & horses?
The section of the canal that can be closed by gates so that the water level can rise.
What is a lock?
The group of people who opposed the building of the Erie Canal.
Who is the Albany Regency?
The distance of the Erie Canal.
What is 363 miles?
The amount of money it cost to build the Erie Canal
What is $7 million?
The governor that encouraged the building of the Erie Canal.
Who is Gouverneur Morris?
Dress is a branch of matters relates to this man.
What is Basil Hall?
The length of time it took the Seneca Chief to travel from Buffalo to New York on the celebration voyage.
What is 9 days?
The depth of the Erie canal.
What is 4 ft?
Five Ways New York City was shaped by the Erie Canal.
What is NYC prospered, everything went thru NYC, flour/grains W to E, tools E to W, gave access to Midwest & Western expansion, primary port for Europeans, became largest banking center & lots of businesses along the canal and launched consumer economy?
This industry was most opposed to the building and maintenance of the Erie Canal.
What is the railroad?
The Erie Canal contained several of these artificial channels that allowed water to flow using gravity and a bridge.
What is aqueduct?
The purpose of the Erie Canal.
What is transport commerce?
The width of the Erie Canal.
What is 40 ft?
The 3 main points of the Monroe Doctrine.
What is No new colonization in the Americas, US will not meddle in Old World affairs, and Europe will not meddle in New World affairs?
What is wheat?
The president during the construction of the Erie Canal.
Who is James Monroe?
Ways to build roads prior to 1800.
What is animals, foot, Indians, horseback, wagons & carriages?
The two bodies of water connected by the Erie Canal.
What is the Hudson River and Lake Erie?