Present huge funding and, in the nineteenth century in this project can only be described as unimaginable.
 
The then U.S. President Thomas Jefferson once said that the program is \”almost crazy\” plan, he thought the Erie Canal is very unrealistic and not feasible, so they refused to provide support. However, Beverly was successful by the New York governor DeWitt Clinton .
Support, although many people because they do not agree with the construction of canals for the benefit of New York, so opponents can obstruct the canal construction everywhere bill the approval of the Erie Canal and known as \”DeWitt\’s stupid plan\” or \”DeWitt\’s small ditch\” and ridiculed, but Clinton April 17, 1816 in New York when the state legislature by .
The success of case of the Erie Canal plan to build support and funding approval.
 
Erie Canal plan is designed to dig 12 meters (40 feet) wide, 1.2 meters (4 feet) deep waterway, and accumulation of excavated soil slope land in the canal to plan for the canal trail. In the design of 1.07 m (3.5 feet) wide within a .

And which town the size of the canal route is also a large economic needs. Mohawk River is a tributary of the upper Hudson River, flow through the Ice Age glaciers left behind when the river, through the Appalachian Mountains of northern New York state into area (Catskills) and Jady Wing Dyke area (Adirondack).
 
Mohawk Valley is the only one .
In Alabama through the Appalachian Mountains, north of the river, and almost from the time the Hudson River to the west of river importance of the separation of the pair of straight and Lake Erie to Lake Ontario . From the Mohawk River west of the can after many inland in the western New York, the newly established towns. Construction .
Of a canal to face enormous difficulties.
 
The Hudson River from Albany to the Erie Canal between Lake Erie must be an upward climb 183 meters (600 feet), but if you want to overcome this difficulty we must altitude of 580 kilometers (360 miles) long canal on the set of 50 a lock, even if this is necessary in the .

Of immigrants from England endless, causing the population to the western New York State mobile power.
 
As the population of immigration, the population of New York State south of Lake Ontario is also a rapid increase in the eighteenth century to the nineteenth century, western New York, the increase in large population centers also increased on the route connecting Lake .
Erie needs . Because of these factors, local people began to support the construction of the canal plan. The federal government in 1807 to provide the United States began vigorously the construction funds. This is because after decades of peace, the U.S.
 
Treasury more than adequate and the then U.S. President Thomas Jefferson decided the money to improve the domestic .
Education and the building. Although this money last for the outbreak of the War of 1812 has never been allocated to New York state capital, but put forward plans for the canal after the cast was great thrust.
 
But the Erie Canal has provided great incentive; its place in the United States need to transport the two major economic regions, .