why was the erie canal built?
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So big boats could get through.\nIf you want to know more:\n\nhttp://www.history.rochester.edu/canal/
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Vanderbilt financed the railroads, so the answer is probably B.\n\nBur Carnegie built the steel mills that made the steel for railroad tracks, and Rockfeller got rich off the coal and oil used to run those plants.\n\nJames B Duke made his fortune selling cigarettes. He also founded Duke University.
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Just as a water hole attracts a variety of animals, and area with favorable amounts of resources with draw attention from many different people and cultures.  For example, though not natural resource, the idea of freedom attracted many immigrants to the United States, thus, producing an eclectic population.
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You have got to be kidding.\n\nhttp://members.shaw.ca/spudnewt/sierranaked.jpg/\n\nBut seriously, the founding of the United States; the invention of the locomotive; the Louisiana purchase; the invention of internal combustion engine; the civil war; the invention of the airplane; the industrial revolution....
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The Illinois and Michigan Canal
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they built windmills because they had many many rivers and they wanted to use the water energy for things like grinding grains etc. it was also a method to limit the water flow and thus prevent flooding, as 70% of the country is at or below sea level
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At the point in time when the colonies were developing, they used water power! New England had plenty of streams and rivers. Its shoreline and oak forest aided the shipbuilding industry.
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Actually, it was started by the steel workers in Pennsylvania. Why they started it, I don't know.
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first the design of canal is done and canal is built on this design . this design involves the cross-section and material detail and also the methodology of the canal. \nafter the design the canal location is marked with the help of surveying and then after that the excavation is done with respect to that survying and then the material is placed in the canal
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The Ohio Canal. \nThis site has all you need to know about it:\n\nhttp://my.oh.voyager.net/C8/D7/lstevens/canal/
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Believe it or not most of the "earth" was reused in the actual construction going to build on/off ramps, fill in and compacted in areas that were to wet for the most part.(special note most of the expressway is 6 feet below the level of Lake Michigan)
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It was built during a time of great turmoil and when the U.S.A was experiencing high unemployment rates.  Despite the problems of America it was built and for a time it was the tallest building in the world.  It was a great achievement in the face of trouble!
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Lake Erie, the fourth largest of the Great Lakes, was once declared dead by scientists because it was so polluted.
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because it has river banks
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The closest I came to any kind of a real answer was that there was a surveyor by that name who lived in Czarist Russia in 1830 and planned a series of canals to make a river run backward.\n\nhere's the site:  \n\nhttp://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,950711,00.html
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Prior to the invention of the steam engine, industry tended to center where there was rapidly flowing water. New England was ideally suited to this for several reasons.\n\nThey had a relatively cold climate and so got a good deal of snow in the winter (when industries were typically slower, for they had not yet gone on the modern work schedule allowed by artifical lighting and accurate timekeeping.)\n\nThat snow resulted in a good 'head' of water power in the spring melt. \n\nIn addition to the spring melt, the mountainous regions of New England were close enough to the coast that the water did not lose too significant a portion of its velocity. The rivers were realtively narrow and fast.\n\nIn the south were wider, gentler rivers, further away from the coastal regions where people first settled in large groups. Because they had wider regions of flatter ground, the South tended to concentrate on agriculture.\n\nThere were three primary mill (waterwheel-driven) industries in the late 1700's. There were sawmills, for cutting timbers into lumber, without which the other industries could not have arisen. There were grist mills for grinding grain into flour, and making relatively chear cereal foods available, without which the worker base could not have subsisted. \n\nFinally there were the textile mills, where fibers were spun and woven into fabrics. These were probably the latest and most mechanically complicated of the three main varieties. (Recall, that the Jacquard loom of a later generation, was the first of a long line of machines which were operated by means of punched cards or tapes, prior to the invention of electric controls and the computer, or even pneumatic controls.)\n\nThe availability of shipping in New England was another reason that this area became a leader in these industries. The lumber, flour and fabric were sold all over the place. \n\nLinen and woolen fabrics were the most important at first, until Eli Whitney (of Massachusetts) invented the cotton gin and cotton became much more important in the agricultural and economic life of the South. It is highly ironic that, after having invented one machine which contributed heavily, though indirectly, tothe American Civil War, Eli Whitney also developed the mass production method of manufacturing arms which were then used by Union forces to win the war.
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Why not have enough for both? Why not make both? Instead of using money on stupid sh*t (you can think of a lot of things are money is going to waste on), we can make more swamps to control floodings, and it will also help out our eco system.