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Which invention helped to speed up the building of the Erie Canal?

a. cotton gin
b. spinning jenny
c. water frame
d. stump remover

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It was the "d. stump remover" that was an invention that helped to speed up the building of the Erie Canal, since this allowed for stumps to be pulled out at a rate of roughly forty stumps a day. 
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