Answers to the Questions:
1.) Canal: an artifical waterway that is constucted to allow the passage of boats carrying produce and passengers.
2.) John Quincy Adams
3.) A US Senator and Mayor of New York
4.) Any of the following answers are acceptable:
* Farmers had cheap and fast means of transporting goods.
* It inspired a new canal building "boom"
* Thousands of settlers used the canal to move West
* New Cities and Ports Developed
* Knit together Atlantic Seaboard with Applichian Mountains
* Increased foreign trade
* Helped New York become the Empire State
5.) Allows the president to have surveys made of important transportation routes.
6.) Any of the following answers are acceptable:
* The canal goes from New York to Buffalo.
* The canal is 363 miles long.
* The canal was built between 1817-1825.
* Construction began on July 4, 1817.
* The first fifteen miles took 2 years to complete.
* The canal has a total of 86 locks.
* The canal is 4 feet deep by 40 feet wide.
* The passenger boats were called packets.
* The boats transporting produce were called line boats.
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