The Erie canal was started in 1817 and was finished in 1825 at a length of 363 miles.
True, Robert Smalls was born into slavery in South Carolina and was hired out to work on steamboats as a youth. He was born an African-American slave, and during and after the Civil War became a ship's pilot, sea captain, as well as a politician. He freed himself, his family and other slaves and convinced Lincoln to let African-American soldiers fight during the war.
D) They gained California and New Mexico
The Continental Congress named f*** member commission to negotiate a treaty John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John jay, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Laurens