...When the Erie Canal, lining Lake Erie and Ontario from Albany to Buffalo in New York, had been constructed and opened in the year 1825, the economic landscape in New York would be changed forever. During the time it was built, the Industrial Revolution, adopted from the Great British movement, had shaped New England into a land of virtue and one unrecognized by the rest of the world, let alone the United States. The Erie Canal had been proven to be one of the most cogent aspects of New York’s, “rise to distinction,” throughout it’s 200 years of notable existence. It had offered many advantageous opportunities and therefore implanted growth within the colonial state as a result. Given the influx in the amount of people, workers and inventors...
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...APUSH Study Guide 8 A weak Confederacy and the Constitution, 1776-1790 Themes/Constructs: The federal Constitution represented a moderately conservative reaction against the democratilizing effects of the Revolution and the Articles of Confederation. The American Revolution was not a radical transformation like the French or Russian revolutions, but it produced political innovations and some social change in the direction of greater equality and democracy. The American Revolution did not overturn the social order, but it did produce substantial changes in social customs, political institutions, and ideas about society and government. Among the changes were the separation of church and state in some places, the abolition of slavery in the North, written political constitutions, and a shift in political power from the eastern seaboard toward the frontier. The first weak government, the Articles of Confederation, was unable to exercise real authority, although it did successfully deal with the western lands issue. The Confederation’s weakness in handling foreign policy, commerce and the Shays Rebellion spurred the movement to alter the Articles. Instead of revising the Articles, the well-off delegates to the Constitutional Convention created a charter for a whole new government. In a series of compromises, the convention produced a plan that provided for a vigorous central government, a strong executive, the protection for property, while still upholding republican...
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