The Erie Canal

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The Erie Canal

• Created by
• Whitney Terry
• Jordan Adkins

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Information about the Erie Canal

• The Person that lead the construction was De Witt
  Clinton. Originally the canal was 584 km long and
  about 12 m long. The Erie Canal made a big
  economic change in the United States.

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How the Erie Canal helped economically

• Steamboats traveled down the Erie Canal carrying
  freight. It helped economically with all the
  steamboats traveling down the canal. It opened up
  new possibilities and they could ship things much
  faster.

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The Erie Canal in 1817

• When DeWitt Clinton was elected governor in
  1817, the work began on the Erie Canal. Before
  the Erie Canal was built, the trip from New York
  to buffalo took six weeks but the Canal did the
  job in 10 days!! In 1825 there were no
  televisions so many cannons were fired one after
  another. It took 1 hour and 21 minutes to send
  the message from Buffalo to Sandy Hook!

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How the Erie Canal helped the Industrial
Revolution

• By linking the Hudson River and the Great Lakes
  it lowered the cost of transportation by 93. For
  example the transportation of materials dropped
  from 100.00 to 70.00 a ton. Now you could send 7
  tons of materials down the Hudson River to for
  only 70.00. Thats why the Erie Canal was
  important to Industrial Revolution .