During the late 1700s and early 1800s, canal building want to many changes. which statement below tell about the changes?
choose all answers that are correct.

a) road development made canals obsolete and rarely used.
b) the british parliament passed laws directing that rivers be dug deeper and made wider.
c) private firms cut canals at key point and connected rivers.
d) americans showed little interest in the development of canals, regarding them as an old world mode of transportation.
e) to a web of waterways, boats could reach towns they had never been able to reach before.