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The manufacture of the machines has itself become one of considerable magnitude , and has received a remarkable impulse since 1850. The returns show an aggregate of 116,330 machines made in nine States in 1860 , the value of which was ...
The manufacture of the machines has itself become one of considerable magnitude , and has received a remarkable impulse since 1850. The returns show an aggregate of 116,330 machines made in nine States in 1860 , the value of which was ...
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Printers were receiving , at the beginning of the century , about $ 1.00 a day , and their wages had increased to ... In 1831 daily wages for agricultural laborers ranged from 57.5 cents to $ 1.00 ; blacksmiths received from $ 1.00 to ...
Printers were receiving , at the beginning of the century , about $ 1.00 a day , and their wages had increased to ... In 1831 daily wages for agricultural laborers ranged from 57.5 cents to $ 1.00 ; blacksmiths received from $ 1.00 to ...
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mill operatives received $ 1.17 , printers $ 1.75 , shoemakers $ 1.70 , cotton - mill operatives $ 1.03 , woolen - mill operatives 87.3 cents , glassmakers $ 2.96 , and millwrights $ 1.66 . The wages in all of these occupations ...
mill operatives received $ 1.17 , printers $ 1.75 , shoemakers $ 1.70 , cotton - mill operatives $ 1.03 , woolen - mill operatives 87.3 cents , glassmakers $ 2.96 , and millwrights $ 1.66 . The wages in all of these occupations ...
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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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| 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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