The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy

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The transportation revolution and creation of a
national market economy
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The National Road
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The Erie CanalBegun in 1817 completed in 1825
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The Erie Canal
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Principal Canals in 1840
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Robert Fulton the Steamboat
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The Iron Horse Wins! (1830)1830 ? 13 miles of
track built by Baltimore Ohio RRBy 1850 ? 9000
mi. of RR track 1860 ? 31,000 mi.
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The Railroad Revolution, 1850s
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Inland Freight Rates
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National Origin of Immigrants1820 - 1860
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Know-Nothing PartyThe Supreme Order of the
Star-Spangled Banner(Nativism)
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Eli Whitneys Gun FactoryInterchangeable Parts
for the Rifle
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Cyrus McCormick the Mechanical Reaper 1831
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John Deere the Steel Plow (1837)
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Samuel F. B. Morse1840 Telegraph
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Cyrus Field the Transatlantic Cable, 1858
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New England Dominance in Textiles
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New England Textile Centers (1830s)
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Changing Occupation Distributions1820 - 1860
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Boom/Bust Cycles 1790-1860The blue line shows,
for comparison, the price of a years tuition at
Harvard College. In 1790 it was 24, but by 1860
had risen to 104.
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American Population Centers in 1820
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American Population Centers in 1860