How did the Erie Canal help to develop the market economy in the north ?

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, economic expansion spurred the building of canals to speed goods to market. ... The Erie Canal made an immense contribution to the wealth and importance of New York City, which became the chief U.S. port, and it fostered a population surge in western New York State.

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because other regions has other things that egypt doesnt have.