The Making of America, Volume 3Making of America, 1906 - Inventors |
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... England and the continent . Two thirds of the cotton manufactured in Europe is raised by negro labor in our southern states . • In the production of other fibres , the showing is not by any means so favorable to the United States . In ...
... England and the continent . Two thirds of the cotton manufactured in Europe is raised by negro labor in our southern states . • In the production of other fibres , the showing is not by any means so favorable to the United States . In ...
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... England that the states took up the work of internal improvement on a large scale . New York led the way with her Erie canal in 1817 , and soon after expanded this into an extensive system of canals , reaching all parts of the state ...
... England that the states took up the work of internal improvement on a large scale . New York led the way with her Erie canal in 1817 , and soon after expanded this into an extensive system of canals , reaching all parts of the state ...
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... England , and which in a decade or two entirely changed the relation of that region to the rest of the country , lifting it for the first time into that important place in our economic life which it has until recently occupied . This ...
... England , and which in a decade or two entirely changed the relation of that region to the rest of the country , lifting it for the first time into that important place in our economic life which it has until recently occupied . This ...
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... England . In 1790 the census showed only 1,075 people in New York west of Seneca lake ; in 1800 there were still but 17,016 ; by 1810 this number had risen to 72 , - 000 ; and in 1820 to 211,000 . These figures show how large a movement ...
... England . In 1790 the census showed only 1,075 people in New York west of Seneca lake ; in 1800 there were still but 17,016 ; by 1810 this number had risen to 72 , - 000 ; and in 1820 to 211,000 . These figures show how large a movement ...
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... England had to depend chiefly upon female laborers , whose average period of service was less than five years ; while the greatest difficulty was experienced by all the states in securing common laborers to construct the early canals ...
... England had to depend chiefly upon female laborers , whose average period of service was less than five years ; while the greatest difficulty was experienced by all the states in securing common laborers to construct the early canals ...
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