History of the United States I / Unit 17 USH1 2428 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Westward Movement
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The idea
Internal migration ran west along the routes that commerce opened, and the Erie Canal made the Great Lakes basin reachable from New York in eighteen twenty-five.
In practice
Rochester growing into a boomtown on canal traffic.
Where people slip
Unit 09 covers the canal and Unit 11 the acquisitions that followed. Population moved where transport made land worth farming, and not before.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
Unlocks
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