MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR
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Cape Cod Canal
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Erie Canal
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Panama Canal
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Ohio Canal
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Erie Canal became known as the “Mother of Cities” because it gave rise to so many cities, towns, and villages.
Detailed explanation-2: -On April 15th, 1817, the New York State Legislature finally approved construction of the Erie Canal, which Jesse Hawley had written so compellingly about just a decade earlier. The bill authorized $7 million for construction of the 363-mile long waterway, which was to be 40 feet wide and four feet deep.
Detailed explanation-3: -“The Erie Canal was the first major infrastructure project in the history of America, ” says Derrick Pratt, museum educator at the Erie Canal Museum. But the first challenge to building the Erie Canal was that the United States didn’t have a single college of engineering or any native-born engineers.
Detailed explanation-4: -Workers first broke ground on the Erie Canal on July 4, 1817, near Utica, New York.