1800s NY

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NY state tried to raise money by offering large amounts of unsettled land. This land was called:

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frontier

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The Iroquois allied with _______ during the American revolution and lost all their land after.

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British

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The former Iroquois land attracted New Englanders because of the

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Genesee Road

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In the Big tree treaty, the Holland Land Company met with _______ to purchase land.

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Seneca Leaders

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In the early 1800s, Joseph Ellicot and Colonel Rochester started the cities of: Buffalo, and Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls, Rochester and Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Binghampton

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Buffalo, and Rochester

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The British navy kept ________ American sailors from 1790 to 1820.

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kidnapping and forcing them to work

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Due to the attack on American sailors the US government:

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Declared war of Great Britain

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An inland waterway is a

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canal

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Governor DeWitt Clinton made the Eerie Canal to

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Connect New York City and the Great lakes for trade and transport

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The purpose of the Locks along the Eerie Canal were to

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Move the level of the the water up and down