The Erie Canal and the transcontinental railroad helped industrial growth by making the shipping of goods and resources more efficient. These developments had several positive outcomes including:
1) Shipping goods became cheaper. 2) The amount of time it took to ship goods from city to city decreased. 3) Connecting cities/states that before these were made, had very limited opportunities to do business. 4) Allowing businesses to increase the amount of consumers they could sell their product to.
To Puritans, was the term given to the group of English Christians that did not agree with the of the Church of England because they thought it retained too much of the practices of Roman Catholicism. They wanted to purify the Church.
