<em>According to the lesson the settlers in the West sent their products back to the East over turnpikes and rivers before the canals were built. </em>
People from the East started to move to the West of the country because they were looking for better opportunities to trade and live. The Industrial Revolution changed the way transportation worked. WIth new roads, boats in rivers, steamboats, and later the construction of canals and railroads, what used to last months, now were much easier and faster to transport.
The Annapolis Convention issued a call for another meeting of all of the states which was sent to Congress and to the states. It expressed the hope that more states would be represented and that their delegates or deputies would be authorized to examine areas broader than simply commercial trade.
