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Building Canals and Locks to Connect Waterways
Examine how human engineering through canals like the Erie Canal connected waterways and altered trade routes.
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Human-Environment Interaction and American Regions
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Explain how humans adapt to, modify, and depend on their physical environments across the regions of the United States.
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Learning standards covered
SS.4.10West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All agesCompare and contrast the physical, economic and political changes to America caused by geographic conditions and human intervention (e.g., bridges, canals, state boundaries, transportation, etc.).
SS.4.11West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All agesPlan and construct maps to demonstrate the effect of geographic conditions on historical processes, practices and events (e.g., colonization, industry, agriculture, major engagements in the Revolutionary War, Westward Expansion, etc.).