Curriculum: The Erie Canal: Impact on Peoples and Cities

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Cover		 Description: Students use information from primary documents to describe the social and economic community in Utica after the opening of the Erie Canal.

Learning goals:

  • Learn how the lives of individuals are rooted in specific places and within a specific time frame
  • Understand the historic development of a canal city and the economic and geographic factors that shape urban growth
  • Write an essay describing the businesses, the trades, and the community in Utica, New York, after the Erie Canal was built

Publication date: 2000

Number of pages: 17 (teacher guide – 7; student DBQ – 10)

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