destroyed by the Erie canal, and many German and Irish immigrants were killed by malaria and accidents while working on the C&O Canal. In addition, the lock men and toll takers of the Erie become extremely isolated, and often suicidal people, which was definitely not a benefit of the canals(Bourne 210).After all of the initial developments of the canal, many even bigger effects began to occur. All of these effects, though, combined into a separation of the north and south, which then combined into the Civil War. First of all, the economic boom that so much helped the northern states ignored all of the southern states. This stopped the south from being able to trade as much with the North as they had previously done. Secondly, the North had become a heavy trading area. Which was very different from the still agricultural ways of the south. This was because many northerners had abandoned their farms to work on the canals. This eventually destroyed most of the northern farms, again separating the two regions of the U.S. from trading with each other.While all of this was going on, the south had lost there dominance of trade. Around the middle of the canal age, New Orleans lost its rank of the busiest forwarder of products from the interior. This rank had been switched to Buffalo, New York, ending the greatness of the city of New Orleans(Bourne 132). These examples of separation contributed to the already depleting relationship between the north and south. The most important example is most likely the reduced amount of farms in the north. This is because slavery in the south, as it is well known, resulted from lack of labor in farms. Therefore, if there were not as many farms in the North, there was less of a need for slaves. This created biased points of view on slavery, the north, not needing them, did not think slavery was right. The south, on the other hand, owned many slaves, so they thought slavery was justified. In conclusion, water...
