HIS 2129 Lecture 7: Chapter 4 Canals, Raftsmen, and Snakeheads
30 Oct 2016
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Spread of european settlers depended on the mastery of a number of different technologies. Firearms were a very good trade commodity with the natives for hunting, axes. The development of canals for transportation in north america occurred in the first half of the 19th century and became the lynchpin of the era"s transportation system. Commerce and transportation in a land of moving paths. Everybody"s problem, up keeping was left to the locals. If the road was used more, it would cost the locals more for maintenance to little local benefit. There were not too many solutions for roads during harsher climates, roads degraded. Solutions: john l. macadam suggested using crushed rock and adding layers, adding macadam roads (plank roads) Transportation by sea and river were more economic and rapid than overland. Rivers were the first highways of north america. (navigable) Build canals, flash locks, levees, weirs, channels, side canals etc. Uses of the indian canoe in canada.
