Extra Credit Questions

[AussieMick]

Not, trains Gene. Roger came closest with the Erie Canal. But I think all the topics/issues that were suggested are mentioned in
https://hbr.org/2003/08/abraham-lincoln-...al-economy

I was wanting the Illinois-Michigan Canal.

"Before the war, states were discrete and powerful political and economic units. Regional jealousies—not just between the North and the South but also between the urban East and the rural West—were strong. States in one part of the country frequently attempted to block federal financing of a canal or a harbor in another part on the grounds that it did not benefit them. Lincoln fought such parochialism. In a speech made long before he became president, he cited the benefits of the recently completed Illinois and Michigan Canal. It ran entirely within Illinois. But because of it, sugar, for example, could be carried from New Orleans to Buffalo, New York, more cheaply than along the old coastal route. This benefited both the merchants of New Orleans and the people of Buffalo, who, in Lincoln’s words, “sweetened their coffee a little more cheaply than before.”

I'm afraid the article doesnt (as far as I can see) actually state where and when Lincoln made that speech.