The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and rapid growth of transportation across the USA in the mid-1800s. |
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FOREWORD | xiv |
ROADS AND BRIDGES | 15 |
STEAMBOATS ON RIVER LAKE AND | 56 |
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Albany American Atlantic average Baltimore banks became Boston British built capital Census cent Chap chiefly cities Civil clipper coal coastwise Company competition Cong construction cost cotton decade decline domestic exports early England Erie Canal especially federal fifties flour foreign commerce foreign trade freight G. P. Putnam's Sons greatly growth Harvard University household manufacture Hudson Hunt's Merchants Illinois important increased industry internal improvements investment iron labor Lake Le Havre lines Massachusetts ment merchant marine Middlesex Canal miles mills Mississippi navigation Ohio Ohio River operation Orleans packets passenger passim Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Main Line period Philadelphia political ports putting-out system rail railroad rapidly rates re-exports Report Report on Manufactures River roads route sailing Sess shipments ships South South Carolina statistics steam steamboat steamships Studies tariff textile tion tonnage traffic Treasury tremendous turnpike United vessels wages wagon West western workers York