Economic History of the United StatesMacmillan, 1928 - 301 halaman |
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... ment of a market for their breadstuffs , meat and rum . Debarred from England by the high tariffs , an outlet was found in southern Europe and in the West Indies . In addition to foodstuffs this tropical trade included lumber of various ...
... ment of a market for their breadstuffs , meat and rum . Debarred from England by the high tariffs , an outlet was found in southern Europe and in the West Indies . In addition to foodstuffs this tropical trade included lumber of various ...
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... ment of population . The causes of the Revolution are exceedingly complex , and it is impossible to disentangle the purely economic from the social and political , There was little racial homogeneity in the Middle Colonies . Of the ...
... ment of population . The causes of the Revolution are exceedingly complex , and it is impossible to disentangle the purely economic from the social and political , There was little racial homogeneity in the Middle Colonies . Of the ...
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... hardly lasting , impetus during the early years of the Revolution . On the one hand the petty mercantilist restrictions against industrial develop- ment were removed , and [ 50 ] ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
... hardly lasting , impetus during the early years of the Revolution . On the one hand the petty mercantilist restrictions against industrial develop- ment were removed , and [ 50 ] ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
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Harold Underwood Faulkner. mercantilist restrictions against industrial develop- ment were removed , and on the other the interfer- ence with normal commerce forced the colonists to depend to a greater degree upon home produc- tion . In ...
Harold Underwood Faulkner. mercantilist restrictions against industrial develop- ment were removed , and on the other the interfer- ence with normal commerce forced the colonists to depend to a greater degree upon home produc- tion . In ...
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... ment which they engendered among the commer- cial and industrial groups was no small factor in the revival of prosperity in the last decade of the century . But another factor of even greater im- portance was also responsible . The same ...
... ment which they engendered among the commer- cial and industrial groups was no small factor in the revival of prosperity in the last decade of the century . But another factor of even greater im- portance was also responsible . The same ...
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agriculture American banks Britain building canals capital cent century chief chiefly Chronicles of America Civil colonial period colonists commerce companies Congress cotton craft unions crop currency decade decline dollars early East Edward Channing England English Erie Europe European expansion export farm farmer federal government foodstuffs frontier fur trade gold Granger Movement greenbacks Homestead Act important increased indentured servants Indian Industrial Revolution interests Knights of Labor labor movement legislation loans machinery manufacturing ment metals miles Mississippi monopoly nation Navigation Acts negroes nomic Non-Intercourse Act North Ohio organization panic plantations political population protection railroads rapid raw materials region river roads scarcity of labor settlements settlers ships slavery slaves social soil South southern steam steamboat SUGGESTED READINGS tariff Tariff of 1816 textile tion tobacco trade routes traffic transportation turnpikes unions United valley Virginia vols wages wealth West western land westward
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Halaman 208 - Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line.
Halaman 73 - Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.
Halaman 215 - Mr. Carlisle said in 1878 that this was a struggle between " the idle holders of idle capital " and " the struggling masses, who produce the wealth and pay the taxes of the country," and, my friends, the question we are to decide is: Upon which side will the Democratic party fight; upon the side of "the idle holders of idle capital " or upon the side of
Halaman 189 - We mean no conflict with legitimate enterprise, no antagonism to necessary capital, but men, in their haste and greed, blinded by self interests, overlook the interests of others, and sometimes violate the rights of those they deem helpless.
Halaman 189 - We mean to uphold the dignity of labor, to affirm the nobility of all who earn their bread by the sweat of their brows.
Halaman 192 - We have no ultimate ends. We are going on from day to day. We are fighting only for immediate objects — objects that can be realized in a few years.
Halaman 139 - The banks lent out their notes to speculators. They were paid to the receivers and immediately returned to the banks, to be lent out again and again, being mere instruments to transfer to speculators the most valuable public land and pay the Government by a credit on the books of the banks.
Halaman 214 - Notwithstanding all this, never in our history have the banks, land-grant railroads, and other monopolies, been more insolent in their demands for further privileges — still more class legislation. In this emergency the dominant parties are arrayed against the people, and are the abject tools of the corporate monopolies.
Halaman 191 - We have numberless trades' unions, trades' assemblies or councils, Knights of Labor, and various other local, national, and international labor unions, all engaged in the noble task of elevating and improving the condition of the working classes But great as has been the work done by these bodies, there is vastly more that can be done by a combination of all these organizations in a federation of trades
Halaman 86 - The indifferent state of that among us does not proceed from a want of knowledge merely; it is from our having such quantities of land to waste as we please. In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labor being abundant ; here it is to make the most of our labor, land being abundant.