What, what, what is it? The Erie Canal changed America in ways many can not see! The Erie Canal seemed like just an old river but it wasn't it had many features that helped change America.So why did the Erie Canal change America? The Erie Canal helped change America by creating the women's right movement, increasing trade, and its safer, cheaper, and faster. The Erie Canal helped create the women's right movement by national park service, more population, and female preaching in early nineteenth-century
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1. Demarco should hold a meeting in a town hall setting to inform the tribes of the outcome of the mining. The land belongs to the tribes so it’s important Xeon is transparent. Demarco could play the role of their advocate by positioning the positive outcomes first: more schools, hospitals, jobs and a better economy. It’s also important that Demarco provides them with evidence that the mining would be environment-friendly. Then ultimately letting them know the negative impact it could have on
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this dilemma, research was done to the new source of water that the city had recently switched to. Flint River was the new source of water for the poorly funded city since the city thought they could save money by switching from their ex-water source, Lake Huron. A copious amount of experts and officials are bewildered and wonder why the notoriously filthy Flint River is able to be used as the water that people of the city drink and use. “When a class-action lawsuit appeared, it was discovered that the
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In the article “When Every Drop Of Water Could Be Poison: A Flint Mother's Story”, Laura McDermott reveals the ongoing struggle in Flint, Michigan regarding their contaminated water supply. It was in 2014 when the city switched its main source of water and began using the water from the Flint River. However, this water was “harder” and started to damage the pipes, which caused lead to contaminate their water supply. This made the water unsafe and extremely toxic and now over 100,000 residents are
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The Florida Everglades is one of the largest natural wetlands in the world. Spanning over 1.5 million acres in Southern Florida, the Everglades is home to a thriving, yet fragile ecosystem of endangered species and native plants. Originally covering over 3 million acres, the area of the Everglades reduced drastically after settlers arrived in Southern Florida in the early 1900s. In order to sustain themselves, the settlers drained a large supply of water in the wetlands to build houses and plant
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Endangered Species The Everglades is a 2 million acre wetland ecosystem that starts in Central Florida, near Orlando, and continues all the way south into the Florida Bay. During Florida’s wet season, Lake Okeechobee overflows and releases water into a slow moving river with saw grass and marsh. They call this a “river of grass”. The Everglades is known worldwide for amazing wildlife. From Manatees, and Crocodiles, to the Florida Panthers, there are also many birds such as the egrets, roseate spoonbills
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Did the construction of the Erie Canal have a positive or negative effect on the United States? The Erie Canal was started in 1817, and was completed in 1825. The Erie Canal changed the United States of America for the better because of increased trade, access to easy transportation, and had a positive effect on woman’s rights. Long distance trade was hard to accomplish in the 1800’s. The Erie Canal helped to solve many of the issues of transportation. The Erie Canal offered more protection from
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In 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan, located nearly 70 miles north of Detroit, decided to switch water sources from Lake Huron to Flint River in order to reduce the water fund shortfall. Since the 1970s, the water located in the Flint River was severely neglected and contaminated due to, “toxic substances, fecal coliform bacteria, low dissolved oxygen oils, and plant nutrients,” according to the State of Michigan’s DNR. The Department of Environmental Quality in Michigan was not treating the water
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involves the contamination of drinking water in Flint, Michigan, United States. The crisis started in April 2014 when Flint decided to change its water source to the Flint River from treated Detroit Water and Sewerage Department water, which was from Lake Huron and the Detroit River. The water of the Flint River is extremely corrosive, so as it travels to Flint, through the city’s old pipes, it ate away at the pipes, absorbing the lead before entering houses. Flint, Michigan’s water crisis is an incident
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Condition of Lake Heron Sherrika R. Newman Professor Carrie Miller English Composition November 24, 2013 Lake Heron is one of five Great Lakes located on the west by the state of Michigan in the United States. It is the second-largest Great Lakes due to the having a surface area of 23,000 square miles. But by volume Lake Huron is only the third largest of the Great Lakes. Looking at illustration (A) below, Lake Heron is surrounded by Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. It
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