The Making of America, Volume 3Making of America, 1906 - Inventors |
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... roads , President Jefferson had called the attention of con- gress to such a policy , and Gallatin had submitted his famous report which outlined a complete system of roads and canals , and recommended that the federal government ...
... roads , President Jefferson had called the attention of con- gress to such a policy , and Gallatin had submitted his famous report which outlined a complete system of roads and canals , and recommended that the federal government ...
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... roads , and Kentucky especially to the improvement of the navigation of her rivers . Nor were the transportation enterprises the only ones to receive the assistance of the states at this time . Almost from the first introduction of ...
... roads , and Kentucky especially to the improvement of the navigation of her rivers . Nor were the transportation enterprises the only ones to receive the assistance of the states at this time . Almost from the first introduction of ...
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... roads , combined to make this extension of cotton culture into the southwest the source of the greatest profits in agriculture which the American people had ever enjoyed . A flood of emigrants from the older slave states now poured into ...
... roads , combined to make this extension of cotton culture into the southwest the source of the greatest profits in agriculture which the American people had ever enjoyed . A flood of emigrants from the older slave states now poured into ...
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... roads during the ten or fifteen years prior to the war . But the improvement of rivers and building of canals , which alone could enable remote regions to send their produce to market , had been almost entirely neglected . Numerous ...
... roads during the ten or fifteen years prior to the war . But the improvement of rivers and building of canals , which alone could enable remote regions to send their produce to market , had been almost entirely neglected . Numerous ...
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... roads from Phila- delphia and Baltimore to the Ohio river , nothing had been accomplished . They now took up the matter in earnest . New York was the first to act , and in two years after the close of the war was ready to break ground ...
... roads from Phila- delphia and Baltimore to the Ohio river , nothing had been accomplished . They now took up the matter in earnest . New York was the first to act , and in two years after the close of the war was ready to break ground ...
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