The Erie Canal was an instant success in the United States. It did not acquire a lot of support in the beginning of the building process but later was proved to be very beneficial to the entire country. The canal helped strengthen the United States economically. The Erie Canal led to economic growth in the United States by, increasing the speed of transporting goods, connecting the East to the Midwest to develop jobs and new markets and also created trade opportunities to the rest of the world.
The Erie Canal gained economic growth by speeding up the shipment process of goods. The amount of time it took to transport goods was reduced down by a third. Economic growth is increased when supply chains and goods reach the consumer at a fast pace, this fuels the economy and more people spend more money. A boat traveling down a canal is a much faster transportation method than a wagon riding along dirt road. The canal method transports goods 13 days quicker than the wagon method (Document 2). It is evident that the Erie Canal was a well spent
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creation because it allowed ships to transport items much faster, which generates a lot of money. Economic growth evolved due to the connection between the East and the Midwest through the Erie Canal.
The Erie Canal unified people in the Midwest of the country and people in the East. This unification allowed the development of jobs and new markets to arise.The Erie Canal expands from the Hudson River all the way over to Lake Erie, which connects the Midwest to New york (Document 3). The Erie Canal brought many people into the New York area. New York is a known area for having plenty of jobs. Many people would come into New York through the Erie Canal to get jobs or start new markets. The canal connection between the East and the Midwest also allowed for trading and selling of different goods to occur.This allows for more money to be made since it opens up new places to trade and sell goods to. It was important that the Erie Canal was developed because without it the United States would not made as much money as they
did. Before the Erie Canal was built, New York had the fifth largest seaport and after the Erie Canal was created is quickly became the busiest seaport in the United States (Document 1B). The canal created world wide trade opportunities since the Erie Canal flowed into the Hudson River which led straight into the Atlantic ocean. ¨This new waterway not only connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, it caused a terrific boon [increase] in industry all along the Hudson River and made New York’s ports and harbor more valuable than ever,¨(Document 1A). The New York seaport was gaining a great deal of money due to all the businesses and people coming into America from overseas to trade. The Erie Canal made it easy to trade Midwestern and Eastern goods to the overseas merchants. As a final analysis, the Erie Canal caused economic growth for the country by the rapid pace of transporting goods,uniting the East and Midwest to develop jobs and create world wide trade possibilities. Overall the Erie Canal was a great way for our country to strengthen its economy.
Despite the negative encounters of Andrew Carnegie’s Steel Company, the exploration and exchange of Carnegie Steel is that the steel was cheap. This had a positive impact on the United States because steel fed national growth, steel meant more jobs, national prestige, and a higher quality of life for
At the beginning, may be the intentions were changing through its construction process. But it certainly the canal had the support of workers and opposition on top of this many people. A interesting aspect I could say it is that The Erie cans was financed by the New York Stated and...
People predicted things about it, some predictions were false and some were true, but no matter who says what about the canal, both positive and negative impacts can be argued about the construction of this canal. The Erie Canal made an impact on many movements including but certainly not limited to the abolitionist movement, and the women's rights movement. This manmade water way also effected how people transported throughout the country. In fact, until the railroads were built, the Erie Canal was the fasted and most efficient way to travel and move goods around the country. In conclusion, the Erie Canal effected the united states positively, negatively, regardless of what people predicted would happen if this canal was
The National Bank created a standarad form of currency and helped pay off the revolutionary war debt. In 1816, there was a second twenty year charter. It was founded during the administration of U.S. President James Madison to stabilize currency. The estblaishment of a national bank led improvements in transportation because now roads could be paid for. These Improvements in Transportations were good for communication around the nation, which helped send messages faster. In 1818, the national road started the growing road systems that tied the new west to the old east. The Erie Canal was built in New York and runs from the Hudson River to Lake Erie, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.
There is one reason Chicago is as big as it is today and that is the fact that it is the largest rail city in the world. The railroad made Chicago what it is today, and although the canal was very important in the history of Chicago the railroads importance out weighs it by far. The canal was important because it was the vision of the first settlers of Chicago to have an all water trade route that would go through Chicago. What those first explorers saw was a way to make a canal so that they could transport goods from the St Lawrence River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico with less cost and with more efficiency. The canal was the reason Chicago was settled in the first place if not for it there might very well not be a city called Chicago. You could argue that the canal was the most important thing in Chicago's history but I think the railroads were much more important. The railroads enabled Chicago to become one of the biggest cities in the world by bringing in different business and all types of goods. Chicago is a very key location to have a railroad-shipping hub. This is because it is centrally located in the United States so goods can be shipped in almost any direction and received in a shorter amount of time. William Butler Ogden was the one who pushed for Chicago to adopt a large rail system and he should be known as the one who made this city boom. St. Louis or another centrally located city could have very well adopted the rail system and they would have reaped all the benefits.
Andrew Carnegie was born into a middle class family, he was born November 25, 1835 in Scotland, and died August 11,1919. When Andrew Carnegie was just a child his country was going through economic problems. The economic problems caused many people to find jobs, and which affected his father. They had to make a decision to move to the united states,he was 12 years when he start to work in a cotton factory as a bobbin boy. When Andrew Carnegie was 14 he became a messenger for the telegraph, he was a such a good messenger that he became Thomas Scott personal secretary, and telegraph in 1855. In document A, you can read about him, when he was young.
Transportation improved from the market revolution through many new inventions, railroads, steamboats, and canals. Pressure for improvements in transportation came at least as much from cities eager to buy as from farmers seeking to sell. The first railroad built was in 1792, it started a spread throughout the states. Cumberland which began to be built in 1811 and finished in 1852, known to be called the national road stretched over five hundred miles from Cumberland to Illinois. By 1821, there were four thousand miles of turnpike in the United States. Turnpikes were not economical to ship bulky goods by land across long distance across America, so another invention came about. Robert Fulton created steam boats in 1807; he named his first one ‘Clermont.’ These steam boats allowed quick travel upriver against the currents, they were also faster and cheaper. The steamboats became a huge innovation with the time travel of five miles per hour. It also stimulated agricultural economy of west by providing better access to markets at lower cost. While steamboats were conquering the western rivers, canals were being constructed in the northeastern states. The firs...
...dered the construction of the Panama Canal which connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
As the American economy was gradually recovering thanks to the New Deal, Roosevelt decided to increase interaction with neighboring countries. When the Second World War began, Roosevelt saw it as an opportunity to increase production and boost America’s economy. During the 1930 to 1940s, the production of munitions greatly increased. The Second World War significantly increased American economic interaction with South America, Great Britain, and Canada. This lead to greater relations between Latin America and a faster victory as U.S. citizens began to see a shift in economic, political, and social ideals.
Railroads made a huge contribution to the growth of the United States, they led to many advances throughout American History. There were numerous matters the railroads effected in American development and the framework of the country. The railroad had positive and negative effects on America as a whole through the growth of the industry, such as; encouraged western expansion, enhanced the economy, recognized railroad monopolies, assisted the Union in Civil War, helped keep the country together, and created a high expense cost for the nation.
One of the ways in which American expansion shaped the Jacksonian period was through technology. The economic and political growth as well as American settlement can only be described in detail as a side effect of the advancement in technology. First the rising dominance of trade, commerce, and growth would not have been possible without the development of the first canals and then the railroads. (C-108) For example, Western New York had not yet been settled by white Americans. It was not until the impact of the Erie Canal that things began to change. The Erie Canal was one of the most significant and largest transportation projects of the era. Even before the project was completed, production of wheat began to take off and was shipped to eastern customers. Toll revenues on the canal grew so large that the project became self-financing. The expansion of westward trade turned New York into an urban powerhouse. ...
The development of canal, steam boats and railroads provided a transportation network that linked different regions of the nation together. When farmers began migrating westward and acquiring land for crops, cheaper forms of transportation provided the means to transfer their goods to other regions for s...
In conclusion, there were constantly problems arising during the construction of the Erie Canal. Even though the Erie Canal definitely helped boost economic activity and industrialization in Upstate New York, it also caused more and more people becoming reliable on the government. It also helped bring morality and ethics into their everyday decisions. The major hope of the Erie Canal was to make the United States a better country, but there were obviously paradoxes that came along with that goal.
The Erie Canal created what was the first reliable transportation system, connecting the eastern seaboard (New York) and the western interior (Great Lakes) of the United States that did not require on land travel. Along with making water routes faster then travel on land it also cut costs of travel by 95 percent. The canal started a population surge in western New York, and opened regions farther west to settlement. This was the start of New York City becoming the chief U.S. port.
There is no refuting that the railroad companies transformed business operations and encouraged industrial expansion. The raw materials required for construction of the transcontinental railroad directly resulted in the expansion of the steel, lumber and stone industries. (Gillon p.652) The railroad stimulated growth in manufacturing and agriculture providing an efficient manner to ship raw materials and products throughout the country. Which in turn, increased consumerism and introduced t...