The Erie Canal

The Erie Canal connected the commercial ports of New York CIty and, thus, the Atlantic Ocean to...

• Philadelphia.

• Panama Canal.

• the Great Lakes Region.

• New England Shipping Towns.

Who was the gung-ho champion behind the building the Erie Canal?

• engineer and inventor Robert Fulton

• New York Governor DeWitt Clinton

• President Andrew Jackson

• President Thomas Jefferson

How long did the Erie Canal take to build?

• 2 years
• 5 years
• 8 years
• 15 years

LANGUAGE ARTS CONNECTION.

What change, if any, should be made?

Opened November 4 1825, the Erie Canal made it possible to travel directly from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes area by water.

• insert a comma after 4

• change directly to direckly

• change Ocean to ocean

• make no change

LANGUAGE ARTS CONNECTION. What change, if any, should be made?

Shipmunts that had taken 20 days to send over land took only eight days to send on the canal.

• change Shipmunts to Shipments

• change twenty to Twenty

• insert a comma after the second days

• make no change

LANGUAGE ARTS CONNECTION. What change, if any, should be made?

Crops lumber, and other goods could be transported by canal ten times more cheaply.

• insert a comma after Crops

• change lumber to Lumber

• change goods to good's

• make no change

LANGUAGE ARTS CONNECTION. What change, if any, should be made?

Since the canal made it easier to ship goods to and from the region around the Great Lakes, it helped city populations grow there, too.

• change region to Region

• change cities to cities'

• change the period after too to a question mark

• make no chnage

What major industry ruined the canal industry?

• Textile.
• Railroad. 
• Airplane.
• Plantation Cash Crops.

Canals brought wealth to towns, linked regions of the country, and

• raised shipping costs
• lowered shipping costs
• made travel easier
• made travel faster

ANALYSIS. You decide to sell your small farm in New Hampshire and move to Ohio. Both you and your neighbors plan to travel there on the Erie Canal. How would you categorize this effect of the canal? Pick the BEST option by analyzing the information.

• Social

• Economic

• Geographic

• Political