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.

ARoad development made canals obsolete and rarely used.

BThe British Parliament passed laws directing that rivers be dug deeper and made wider.

CPrivate firms cut canals at key point and connected rivers.

DAmericans showed little interest in the development of canals, regarding them as an Old World mode of transportation.

EThanks to a web of waterways, boats could reach towns they had never been able to reach before.