American Economic HistoryHarper & Brothers, 1924 - 721 pages |
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... farming , thus providing an economic basis for those regions . Where mineral resources were at hand , economic life turned to them , so that in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania , in the Rockies , and in the oil fields , whole ...
... farming , thus providing an economic basis for those regions . Where mineral resources were at hand , economic life turned to them , so that in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania , in the Rockies , and in the oil fields , whole ...
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... farmer , and agri- culture played a large part in the economic life of the tribe . Cartier and Champlain saw fields of corn on the banks of the St. Lawrence , De Soto on the Mississippi , and Coronado in the south- west . Henry Hudson ...
... farmer , and agri- culture played a large part in the economic life of the tribe . Cartier and Champlain saw fields of corn on the banks of the St. Lawrence , De Soto on the Mississippi , and Coronado in the south- west . Henry Hudson ...
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... farmer of colonial times could with hard work obtain a living from the soil and might even become very prosperous ... farming was unknown and even rotation of crops was rarely practiced . The land was used until its fertility was ...
... farmer of colonial times could with hard work obtain a living from the soil and might even become very prosperous ... farming was unknown and even rotation of crops was rarely practiced . The land was used until its fertility was ...
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... farmer was self - sufficing . From his field he obtained grains , from his orchard fruits , and from his pasture land meat and dairy products . Flax from the field and wool from the sheep were spun and made into clothing by his wife and ...
... farmer was self - sufficing . From his field he obtained grains , from his orchard fruits , and from his pasture land meat and dairy products . Flax from the field and wool from the sheep were spun and made into clothing by his wife and ...
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... farmers . Houses were raised , fences built , corn husked , and fields plowed by coöperative effort , and the ... farmer found a climate closely approximat- ing his native land and a soil much richer than in New England . In the ...
... farmers . Houses were raised , fences built , corn husked , and fields plowed by coöperative effort , and the ... farmer found a climate closely approximat- ing his native land and a soil much richer than in New England . In the ...
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Page 117 - 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.
Page 430 - State, which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 467 - ... the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, and for the fervor of the Populist movement of the early nineties.
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Page 119 - Stand at Cumberland Gap and watch the procession of civilization, marching single file — the buffalo following the trail to the salt springs, the Indian, the fur-trader and hunter, the cattle-raiser, the pioneer farmer and the frontier has passed by.
Page 206 - Generally, in all the western settlements, three classes, like the waves of the ocean, have rolled one after the other. First comes the pioneer, who depends for the subsistence of his family chiefly upon the natural growth of vegetation, called the "range," and the proceeds of hunting. His implements of agriculture are rude, chiefly of his own •nake, and his efforts directed mainly to a crop of corn and a "truck patch.
Page 471 - ... where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.
Page 207 - The next class of emigrants purchase the lands, add field to field, clear out the roads, throw rough bridges over the streams, put up hewn log houses with glass windows and brick or stone chimneys, occasionally plant orchards, build mills, schoolhouses, court-houses, etc., and exhibit the picture and forms of plain, frugal, civilized life. Another wave rolls on. The men of capital and enterprise come. The settler...