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hroughout President James Monroe’s administration from 1817 to 1825, water transportation played a key role in the settlement of America. Overland routes relied on stagecoaches or wagons traveling over bumpy, slow paths. Rivers and canals allowed people to transport more goods in less time. On the Erie