What was the purpose of the Erie Canal?

It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

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Built in 1825 (5 years before the railroad) the Erie Canal was a proposed way to both quickly and effectively transport goods without the use of pack animals. It span from the Eastern Seaboard to the Western interior of the United States and was used up until the major constructions of railroads

the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.

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