north and west, and their tributary rivers, it will create the greatest inland trade ever witnessed”(Turner 32-33).By 1825, the great canal system opened. With the decrease in transportation charges, it brought, “prosperity and a tide of population into western New York”(Turner 34). This led to movement west. “…villages sprang up along the whole like of canal; the water-power was utilized for manufactures…”(Turner 35). “The Great Lakes navigation grew steadily, the Western Reserve increased its population, and the harbor of Cleveland became a center of trade”(Turner 35).With all the increased population, real estate value rose. New York became the metropolis of the north. Values of imports rose. They eventually became leaders of exports. “The state of New York had by a stroke achieved economic unity, and its metropolis at once became the leading city of the country”(Leuehtenburg and Wishy 49).The southern states, consisting of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. The invention of the cotton gin ultimately led to the expansion of the people from the coast to go inland. The southern states also eventually grew to be inferior to the other states, another reason for the expansion westward.The invention of the cotton-gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 made the cultivation of cotton profitable. “The opening of new land in the west after 1812 extend the area available for cotton cultivation”(Westward Expansion and Regional Differences). Now that cotton cultivation was profitable “…it was only a question of time when the cotton area, no longer limited to the tide water region, would extend to the interior, carrying slavery with it”(Turner 45).The invention of the cotton gin came at a very fitting time for the cotton industry:“Already the inventions of Arkwright, Hargreaves, and Cartwright had worked a revolution in the ...
