The Constitution of the United States

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Fluvial trade is a fancy way of saying that people had to put goods on boats and transport them along rivers. The spanish ond controlled much of the mississippi commerce, and particularly on new orleans. So movinge goods naturally down the isissippi waterway was not an option. And so in order to make that land productive, washington needed to get the goods over the aplatians and to the eastern seaboard where he could then send them off to europe.

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