Video Questions: Erie Canal

1.When did construction begin?
2.How is it described?
3.How wide and deep was it?
4.What did it do?
5.How did people view it?
6.What was an obstacle to rapid expansion?
7.What river flowed from west of the mountains to the Atlantic Ocean?
8.What was needed?
9.Why were canals seen as an obvious method to move freight and goods?
10. What would replace canals as most effective means to transport goods and services?
11. What did the 1808 study look at doing?
12. What did Jefferson say about the proposed canal?
13. What happens in 1817?
14. What were its physical obstacles?
15. What was the total cost of construction? In today's money?
16. How did Europeans see it?
17. When did construction actually begin? Where?
18. How were boats powered?
19. Who dug the ditch?
20. How many worked each day?
21. How much were they paid?
22. How were tree stumps removed?
23. What was the Erie Canal called?
24. What would stop construction in 1817?
25. How long did it take for tolls to pay for it?
26. Where did laborers come in the second year?
27. What would kill over 1,000 workers in one year?
28. How did the canal cross over rivers?
29. How did engineers get water to flow 60 feet up?
30. What were the two cities at the end of the water route? Bodies of water?
31. When was it completed?
32. How long did a trip take?
33. What was the "wedding of the waters?"
34. How did the canal affect New York City's economy?
35. How much did shipping costs drop?
36. What was carried on the canal boats?
37. What kinds of folks traveled on the boats?
38. How fast did the boats move?
39. What reputation did the canal workers have?
40. What kinds of workers worked on the canal? How many?
41. What were the jobs of children?
42. Why did New York City become the principal port of the USA?
43. Who was against the canal? Why?
44. Why were some farmers unhappy?
45. What did other people think?
46. What happens in 1836?
47. What new rival would displace canals?
48. Who in 1899 will revitalize the canal?
49. Why is the Erie Canal more impressive than the Panama Canal?

50. What brings an end to the old canal in the mid 20thcentury?
51. How is the canal viewed today?
52. How was it viewed back then?
53. What does progress often do?