The artificial waterway that allows the passage of boats between Buffalo and Albany is A) Erie Canal.
The Erie Canal, with its 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo, was opened in 1825. It was the longest canal in the world, reducing the time travel between New York City to Buffalo from 26 days to 6, and revolutionizing American economic development, especially the cities such as Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo in New York, as well as Cleveland, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois, to flower into major commercial cities. The success of this canal led the country to a Canal mania in other states, with the construction of thousands of miles of waterways in the following decade.
