Inward Waters: Canals

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Inward WatersCanals Steam Boats

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Northwest Territory, organized 1787 statehood
(1803-159)
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Louisiana Purchase (1803)Additional 800,000 sq.
miles
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Expansion of United States, 1787-1850
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Mississippi and Ohio Rivers
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Erie Canal, upper New York State (digging began
in 1817 opened in 1825)
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Sloop Clearwater, replica of a Hudson River sloop
of early 19th-Century.
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The Clermont, 1807, Robet Fulton Robert R.
Livingston steam boat on Hudson River