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By this bill it is proposed to make a new class of excluded immigrants and add to those which have just been named the ... The existing laws of the United States now exclude , as I have said , certain classes of immigrants who , it is ...
By this bill it is proposed to make a new class of excluded immigrants and add to those which have just been named the ... The existing laws of the United States now exclude , as I have said , certain classes of immigrants who , it is ...
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... had more than doubled , but the segregation of mechanics and labor of all kinds into classes had made rapid progress , and an average wage for such a broad grouping conveys no idea of the rates of wages for the different classes .
... had more than doubled , but the segregation of mechanics and labor of all kinds into classes had made rapid progress , and an average wage for such a broad grouping conveys no idea of the rates of wages for the different classes .
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Carrying this comparison of actual wages for distinct classes into the building trades , a representative establishment in New York reports the pay for carpenters in 1843 as $ 1.50 per day , and in 1891 $ 3.50 , with the hours of work ...
Carrying this comparison of actual wages for distinct classes into the building trades , a representative establishment in New York reports the pay for carpenters in 1843 as $ 1.50 per day , and in 1891 $ 3.50 , with the hours of work ...
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Contents
Economic Provisions of the Constitution of the United States | 7 |
The Land Ordinance of May 20 1785 | 13 |
The Tariff and Tonnage Acts of July 4 and July 20 1789 | 15 |
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actual agricultural American amount authorized average bank become bill bonds capital carried cents centum character citizen classes coin communication Congress considered Constitution construction continue contract corporation currency debt demand deposit direction dollars duty effect employed England enter equal established exceeding existing extensive facts Federal fifty five foreign furnish further enacted give given gold Government hand hundred immigration important improvement increase industry influence interest iron issued labor land leading less manufacture means ment miles millions natural necessary notes object operatives paid passed period persons pound practically present production purchase question race railroad received represented result roads Secretary secure silver supply thereof thirty thousand tion tons transportation Treasury twenty twenty-five United valorem wages whole York
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| Title | Major Documents in American Economic History: From an agrarian to an industrial economy (1785-1900) An Anvil original, 55-56 Volume 55 of Anvil books Volumes 55-56 of Anvil original Volume 1 of Major Documents in American Economic History, Louis Morton Hacker |
| Editor | Louis Morton Hacker |
| Publisher | Van Nostrand, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 20 Jul 2007 |
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