The Making of America, Volume 3Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins Making of America Company, 1906 - Inventors |
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... ment of manufactures , consider the action of both the federal and state governments towards the early transportation and banking enterprise of the country . Before any European gov- ernment had projected a comprehensive system of state ...
... ment of manufactures , consider the action of both the federal and state governments towards the early transportation and banking enterprise of the country . Before any European gov- ernment had projected a comprehensive system of state ...
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... ment of these resources and a consequent large production of wealth . The economic advantages possessed by a people so situated consist simply in the ability to produce food and raw materials with a small outlay of labor . Before they ...
... ment of these resources and a consequent large production of wealth . The economic advantages possessed by a people so situated consist simply in the ability to produce food and raw materials with a small outlay of labor . Before they ...
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... ment of manufactures within itself for its economic prosperity . It is evident from this that the condition necessary to enable the settlers of a new country to utilize their rich natural resources , and so to advance rapidly in wealth ...
... ment of manufactures within itself for its economic prosperity . It is evident from this that the condition necessary to enable the settlers of a new country to utilize their rich natural resources , and so to advance rapidly in wealth ...
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... Indies was a trade of this kind ; and it was principally the develop- ment of the sugar colonies of the West Indies by slave labor , and the consequent dependence of these colonies on other com- THE PIONEERS OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY 19.
... Indies was a trade of this kind ; and it was principally the develop- ment of the sugar colonies of the West Indies by slave labor , and the consequent dependence of these colonies on other com- THE PIONEERS OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY 19.
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... ment . The first is the great increase in the demand for capital which accompanied the opening of the west ; the second is the supplies of capital which were available at that time to satisfy this demand ; and the third is the obstacles ...
... ment . The first is the great increase in the demand for capital which accompanied the opening of the west ; the second is the supplies of capital which were available at that time to satisfy this demand ; and the third is the obstacles ...
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