Answer To generate public sympathy for the Cuban people among Americans
America’s next great conveyor belt of progress is the Erie Canal. When the Mississippi is opened up for trade, the Erie Canal became America's next great conveyor belt of progress. It is compared to the steamboats that spawn cities along its way. It gently converts New York into a prosperous town in which resulted for the town to quadruples its size.
They only traded with their home countries or cities.
African goods were subject to falling prices on the world market