Which event most directly contributed to the growth of new york city as the naton's leading trade center?

Building and opening of Erie canal

Explanation:

Erie Canal was officially opened on October 25, 1825. It linked Lake Erie and all the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and New York. Construction on the canal began in 1816. The canal spanned 363 miles, and its completion helped to speed up the development of the West.

The Erie Canal was first opened in 1825. It was significant because it connected Lake Erie and the Great Lakes system to the Hudson River, and thereby gave the western states direct access to the Atlantic Ocean without shipping goods downstream on the Mississippi River to New Orleans.

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southern north america: yucatán peninsula in southern mexico extending into northern guatemala, and northern belize. these moist forests on the yucatán peninsula of south-eastern mexico are characterized by a tropical humid climate with little topographic relief.

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