[05:20.34]Travel by river was often more convenient than taking a wagon over primitive country road
[05:26.06]especially when shipping heavy loads of farm products or household good
[05:30.16]Where the natural waterways were inadequate
[05:32.62]shallow canals were built.
[05:34.34]The Erie Canal,opened in 1825,connected the Great Lakes with the upper Hudson River.
[05:40.17]It allowed settlers in the Great Lakes region to send their crops eastward to New York City
[05:45.00]the mouth of the Hudson at a much lower cost.
[05:47.82]From there,crops could be shipped to other Atlantic ports.
[05:51.92]The construction of the Erie Canal also encouraged westward migration along inland waterways and helped populate the frontier.
[05:59.39]The City of Detroit grew up between two of the Great Laker.
[06:03.63]Later a canal joined the Great Lakes with the Mississippi river system and Chicago became a thriving city.
[06:10.36]Politically the waterway system untied the nation in a way few had imagined possible.
[06:15.75]By the mid -- 1800's faster and cheaper railroads became more popular and the canal system declined
[06:23.09]railroads could be used year round whereas canals were often frozen in the winter
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