American Economic HistoryHarper & Brothers, 1924 - 721 pages |
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... leading to the Civil War . The fertility and climate of the upper Mississippi Valley made it ideal for the cultivation of corn , and hastened settlement . The great western prairies were adaptable both to cattle raising and to wheat ...
... leading to the Civil War . The fertility and climate of the upper Mississippi Valley made it ideal for the cultivation of corn , and hastened settlement . The great western prairies were adaptable both to cattle raising and to wheat ...
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... leading crops are corn , cotton , hay , wheat , oats , potatoes , barley ,, tobacco , sugar beets and sugar cane , flaxseed , rye , rice , buckwheat , and hops . Of vegetable foodstuffs , cereals are the most important , and of these ...
... leading crops are corn , cotton , hay , wheat , oats , potatoes , barley ,, tobacco , sugar beets and sugar cane , flaxseed , rye , rice , buckwheat , and hops . Of vegetable foodstuffs , cereals are the most important , and of these ...
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... leading source of animal products . The United States ranks fourth among the nations in the number of sheep produced , second in cattle , and first in swine.1 The best grazing lands for cattle are in the great plains , the Rocky ...
... leading source of animal products . The United States ranks fourth among the nations in the number of sheep produced , second in cattle , and first in swine.1 The best grazing lands for cattle are in the great plains , the Rocky ...
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... leading factor in the economic life of the Middle Ages , little was known by Europeans of Asia or the routes thereto . Trade had flourished in ancient times , but during the barbaric invasions of the fifth century and the succeeding ...
... leading factor in the economic life of the Middle Ages , little was known by Europeans of Asia or the routes thereto . Trade had flourished in ancient times , but during the barbaric invasions of the fifth century and the succeeding ...
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... leading from the inland provinces of China and India to Samarkand and Bok- hara on the western slope of the Tian - Shan Mountains . At Bokhara the routes branched , one leading into the Caspian and up the Volga to central Russia and the ...
... leading from the inland provinces of China and India to Samarkand and Bok- hara on the western slope of the Tian - Shan Mountains . At Bokhara the routes branched , one leading into the Caspian and up the Volga to central Russia and 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.
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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...