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A book by Carroll Sheriff describes the “paradox of progress” brought upon by a project advocated by this man. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this man who, along with flour merchant and prisoner Jesse Hawley, promoted the construction of the Erie Canal. Despite being derided as this man’s “folly,” the canal enabled the rapid growth of Buffalo.
ANSWER: DeWitt Clinton [accept Clinton’s Big Ditch or Clinton’s folly] (The book is titled “The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862.”)
[10h] A member of this family donated 100,000 acres of land purchased from the Holland Land Company to finance the Erie Canal. Daniel Webster argued against another member of this family with a license from Robert Fulton.
ANSWER: Ogden [accept David Aaron Ogden or Aaron Ogden] (Daniel Webster argued for Gibbons in Gibbons v. Ogden.)
[10e] While Carroll Sheriff describes contemporary views of the canal as a “work of art,” artists in this school were ambivalent about the canal. This landscape movement was named for a New York river connected by the Erie Canal.
ANSWER: Hudson River School [accept New York School until “river” is read]
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