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... Pennsylvania voted a consid- erable revenue to improving the navigation of rivers and to subsidizing turnpike and bridge companies . But it was after the close of the second war with England that the states took up the work of internal ...
... Pennsylvania voted a consid- erable revenue to improving the navigation of rivers and to subsidizing turnpike and bridge companies . But it was after the close of the second war with England that the states took up the work of internal ...
Page 10
... Pennsylvania , followed about ten years later by Indiana , Illinois , and Michigan , with extensive systems of both canals and railroads . Kentucky and Ten- nessee devoted considerable attention to the building of turn- pike roads , and ...
... Pennsylvania , followed about ten years later by Indiana , Illinois , and Michigan , with extensive systems of both canals and railroads . Kentucky and Ten- nessee devoted considerable attention to the building of turn- pike roads , and ...
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... Pennsylvania , Virginia , and the Caro- linas was full of people , and had its special frontier character- istics in industry and social life . Following the revolution , these backwoodsmen and many emigrants from the tide water region ...
... Pennsylvania , Virginia , and the Caro- linas was full of people , and had its special frontier character- istics in industry and social life . Following the revolution , these backwoodsmen and many emigrants from the tide water region ...
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... Pennsylvania and Virginia , which must have amounted to as many more . According to the census the western states and territories contained 387,183 inhabitants in 1800 ; ten years later they contained 1,075,398 ; and in 1820 2,207,476 ...
... Pennsylvania and Virginia , which must have amounted to as many more . According to the census the western states and territories contained 387,183 inhabitants in 1800 ; ten years later they contained 1,075,398 ; and in 1820 2,207,476 ...
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... Pennsylvania , who had been trained as artisans at home , would not continue more than a few years in that capacity ; the early textile manufac- tures in New England had to depend chiefly upon female laborers , whose average period of ...
... Pennsylvania , who had been trained as artisans at home , would not continue more than a few years in that capacity ; the early textile manufac- tures in New England had to depend chiefly upon female laborers , whose average period of ...
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