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acres Adams agricultural Amer American average banks Britain bushels Canal capital Census cent century chap CHAPTER Civil coal colonies colonists Coman commerce corn corn laws cotton crops cultivation decade domestic duction Econ economic effect Encycl England English Erie Erie Canal exports factory factures farms foreign trade freight gold grain Granger Movement greatly greenbacks growth Hist History immigration important improvements increased industry Intro invention Knights of Labor labor Lake legislation machine machinery manu manufactures Massachusetts ment methods Mississippi negro North Ohio organization paper money Pennsylvania period pig iron population production public lands railroads railway rapid River Samuel Slater secure silver slavery slaves South South Carolina southern SUGGESTIVE TOPICS supply tariff textile tion to-day tobacco tonnage tons TOPICS AND QUESTIONS traffic transportation trust Union United vessels Virginia wages wealth West West Indies western wheat York