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The Erie Canal connected the commercial ports of New York CIty and, thus, the Atlantic Ocean to...
Philadelphia.
Panama Canal.
the Great Lakes Region.
New England Shipping Towns.
Who was the gung-ho champion behind the building the Erie Canal?
engineer and inventor Robert Fulton
New York Governor DeWitt Clinton
President Andrew Jackson
President Thomas Jefferson
LANGUAGE ARTS CONNECTION.
What change, if any, should be made?
Opened November 4 1825, the Erie Canal made it possible to travel directly from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes area by water.
insert a comma after 4
change directly to direckly
change Ocean to ocean
make no change
LANGUAGE ARTS CONNECTION. What change, if any, should be made?
Shipmunts that had taken 20 days to send over land took only eight days to send on the canal.
change Shipmunts to Shipments
change twenty to Twenty
insert a comma after the second days
make no change
LANGUAGE ARTS CONNECTION. What change, if any, should be made?
Crops lumber, and other goods could be transported by canal ten times more cheaply.
insert a comma after Crops
change lumber to Lumber
change goods to good's
make no change
LANGUAGE ARTS CONNECTION. What change, if any, should be made?
Since the canal made it easier to ship goods to and from the region around the Great Lakes, it helped city populations grow there, too.
change region to Region
change cities to cities'
change the period after too to a question mark
make no chnage
ANALYSIS. You decide to sell your small farm in New Hampshire and move to Ohio. Both you and your neighbors plan to travel there on the Erie Canal. How would you categorize this effect of the canal? Pick the BEST option by analyzing the information.
Social
Economic
Geographic
Political
ANALYSIS. Pick the BEST option by analyzing the information.
You are a farmer. The Erie Canal was built through the middle of your largest field. To make it easier to reach your field on the other side of the canal, you build a bridge. Now you can get to your field again and make money by charging a toll for people to use your bridge! How would you categorize this effect of the canal?
Economic
Geographic
Social
ANALYSIS. Pick the BEST option by analyzing the information.
You are a merchant who receives wheat from the Great Lakes region and then ships it to Europe. In the last eight years, the amount of wheat going east has grown from 4,000 to 500,000 bushels per year. Business is very good. How would you categorize this effect of the canal?
Social
Geographic
Economic
Political
ANALYSIS. You share the canal boat with many other passengers. It is crowded, but you know the journey would take MUCH longer if you traveled by land in a horse-drawn wagon. How would you categorize this effect of the canal?
Economic
Social
Geographic
Political
IDENTIFICATION. Who was the western pioneer that explored the Appalachian Mountains
Davy Crockett
Daniel Boone
Zebulon Pike
Morty Sellars
A new waterway made it much faster to move farm goods from the Ohio River valley to eastern cities. A new technology allowed boats to travel against the currents of rivers. A new route across land to the West that Daniel Boone helped create.
Which of the following correctly identifies the three transportation improvements described above?
the Erie Canal, the steamboat, and Wilderness Road
the steamboat, the mechanical reaper, and railroads
the cotton gin, the Erie Canal, and the telegraph
the Erie Canal, the steamboat, and spinning machines
A road that one must pay to use.
convoy
access road
highway
turnpike
People who have ideas to change or improve people's lives are called _______ .
dictators
innovators or visionaries
characters
followers
VOCABULARY.
Which of the following is an artificial waterway built to transport goods and people?
canal
pond
railroad
jeep
Named after a type of cloth, rough roads built of logs laid side by side were called...
ridge roads
corduroy roads
cotton roads
silk roads
Who was Robert Fulton?
an American engineer and inventor
a wealthy American who bought lands west of the Mississippi River
a trader who sold wagons to settlers
a famous painter of early American landscapes
Spelling and Identification.
Who Invented a steam boat?
Robert Fulton
Robert Fultun
Robert Fultonn
Robet Fulton
FACT. The Erie Canal was the biggest construction project in the ___ world in the last ___ years.
Western, 4,000
Eastern, 3,000
Western, 3,200
Western, 2,000
Eastern, 3,000
Mules were used to _____ along the Erie Canal.
pull canoes
pull barges
pull freight trains
pull steamboats
The Erie Canal was dug entirely by hand and with the use of gunpowder explosives.
TRUE
FALSE
According tot he documentary, America lacked a single qualified _____ when the Erie Canal was built.
doctor
geologist
engineer
architect
Who said the following?
"I think of the spirit of America as being imagination combined with tenacity. There's a strong work ethic. The wonderful freedom of creation combined with the mental muscle and physical labor, so, to me, it represents the best of the human spirit."
entertainer and entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs
actor Michael Douglas
former New York CIty mayor Michael Bloomberg
former New York CIty mayor Robert Guiliano
Which of the following was the biggest geological problem facing the crews digging the canal?
a wall of solid quartz, 60 feet high
a wall of solid iron ore, 60 feet high
a wall of solid limestone, 60 feet high
a wall of solid volcanic rock, 60 feet high
The Erie Canal would change everything by linking the _____ to the whole of middle America.
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi RIver
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
SCIENCE CONNECTION. Which is the correct combination of the highly combustible mix the Irish crews used to make gunpowder explosives building the Erie Canal?
nitrate, charcoal, and magnesium
nitrate, gypsum, and sulfur
nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur
nitrate, gypsum, and liquid methane
Former New York mayor _____ said, "Entrepreneurship is about doing things where you don't know what it's going to look like, what it is going to be made of, you just have this instinct that you can do it, and it will work."
Michael R. Bloomberg
Mario Cuomo
David Paterson
Rudy Giuliani
Dr. ______ said, "I think when you're brought up in America, you're brought up on a history of hard work. There are so many immigrants that have died to build this country; that's in our bloodstream. in our DNA,. As Americans, we don't want their lives to go in vain because of that we usually work harder than anybody else."
Kanye West
"J. Z" Shawn Carter
Pharrell Williams
Sean Combs, a.k.a. Diddy
Which city DID NOT experience a "boom" in it's population along the Erie Canal?
Rochester
Albany
Syracuse
Savannah
Which two U.S. Presidents REFUSED to fund the construction of the Erie Canal?
Jefferson and Clinton
Jefferson and Madison
Jefferson and Adams
Jefferson and Jackson
ARGUMENT CLAIMS. What were arguments people of that period had AGAINST building the Erie Canal with tax money?
the canal would increase spur the growth of better schools, hospitals, colleges, and industries
the canal would attract runaway slaves, unskilled workers, and engineers of the Underground Railroad
the canal would be built through swamps, virgin forests, there was no labor, there was no machinery to do that kind of excavation, etc.
How old was the American nation when the Erie Canal was begun?
just 41 years old
just 42 years old
just 44 years old
just 45 years old
TRUE or FALSE
Governor DeWitt Clinton's plan for building of the Erie Canal stated that it was to be dug by hand- all 363 miles, be 40-feet wide and four feet deep, and have 83 stone locks for the smooth regulation of canal traffic.
TRUE
FALSE
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