NYC Grid Plan and Erie Canal

The name of the Dutch governor that was assigned by the Dutch West India Company to whip the colony of New Amsterdam into shape was Peter __________.

Yes, this is a spelling question.

Why?

Because Mr. Beavers is sinister and evil. :)

How is the naming of the streets in NYC's grid plan an example of democracy?

• the names of the streets are named after IMPORTANT PEOPLE, showing that some people are more important than others

• the streets have NUMBERS as their names, showing that important people aren't going to be able to buy their way into naming street after themselves...the numbers do not represent any one person, a symbol of equality

John Jacob Astor had first made his fortunate in the ​ (a)   business. Then he made a lot more money in ​ (b)   as he bought a lot of the land on the island of Manhattan.

• fur trading
• real estate

New York did not have a legendary history by the 1820s, and this is because the city was not very ​ (a)   , having only been founded 160 years before. A man whose pen name was Dietrich Knickerbocker (his real name was ​ (b)   ) created a fictional account of New York City's history in a book called ​ (c)   .

• old
• Washington Irving
• A History of New York
• Rip Van Winkle
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The transportation industry was changed forever after ​ (a)   invented the Clermont, which was the name for the first ​ (b)   . He sailed this ship right off the coast of NYC on its first voyage. Another innovation in sailing came with the ​ (c)   , a shipping company that promised to have ​ (d)   , instead of waiting for the boat to be full. Also, Cornelius ​ (e)   began to build his transportation empire in the 1820s as well, starting his shipping company and later got into railroads during industrialization.

• Robert Fulton
• steamboat
• Black Ball Line
• regularly scheduled departures
• Vanderbilt

Because this southern city is at the end of the ​ (a)   River, which is the longest river in the USA, the city of ​ (b)   could and should have been the largest city in the country, as all of the ​ (c)   goods from all the farms of the American West should have come down to this city. But ​ (d)   became the most important city for business and the economy of the US. This was because the ​ (e)   was constructed, which much of those agricultural goods from New Orleans to NYC.

• Mississippi
• New Orleans
• agricultural
• Chicago
• mined gold and silver
• New York City
• Erie Canal

A mayor of New York City from the early 1800s, a man named ​ (a)   proposed that the city government help manage NYC's northward growth by creating a ​ (b)   . The landscape of northern Manhattan was not flat, but instead it had a lot of ​ (c)   . And Clinton and the grid plan decided to ​ (d)   the hills and fill in the valleys, basically transforming the geography of Manhattan in a drastic fashion. One of the historians from the video said that the grid was an example of ​ (e)   .

• DeWitt Clinton
• grid plan
• hills and valleys
• level
• triumphing over nature
• George Washington
• letting nature be the master of humans

The Erie Canal was dug in order to get to the agricultural wealth of the ​ (a)   . And if nature would provide no way over the ​ (b)   in order to get to Ohio and Kentucky and Indiana, etc, then ​ (c)   would create a way to get into the interior of the US by digging the ​ (d)   . As the NYC Documentary said, New Yorkers looked at the challenges that nature posed and treated it like a ​ (e)   .

• interior of the United States.
• Appalachian Mountains
• DeWitt Clinton
• Erie Canal
• toy