For this essay you need to read: “A Traveler Describes Life Along the Erie Canal, 1829” and “James Madison Asks Congress to Support Internal Improvements, 1815” in the American Yawp Reader. Then in your essay you should analyze the two primary source documents by connecting the description of life along the Erie Canal with James Madison’s call for internal improvements. Be sure to discuss how these two documents help you understand how the real the lived experience of historical people during the 1820s related to political policies and technological developments.
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