1. How does Porter characterize the industrial and trade potential of western New York and the Midwest? What does he argue will help the region realize that full potential?
2. What changes and benefits does Porter argue will come from the building of the Erie Canal? What can you infer about how Porter feels about these changes and benefits?
3. What can you predict would be the industrial and demographic changes occurring in the region around the canal? What can you infer about Porter's view of these changes?
4. At the time he gave this speech, Congressman Porter was representing a district in western New York State. How might this have affected or influenced his views on the value of government funding for building the Erie Canal? What can you infer about how Porter's constituents would react to the industrial and demographic changes that the canal's construction would bring to their region?
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This same diversity of interests, if skillfully managed, will be the means of bringing about a closer and more intimate union of states.
It will correspond to both sides to focus on the internal trade so that in this way they promote and facilitate this exchange and provoke a production of mutual dependence of interests between these two regions.
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