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Laddar... The Economic Growth of the United States: 1790-1860 (The Norton library : Economics/History ; N346) (1961)av Douglass C. North
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"On the eve of the Civil War the United States had already achieved rapid and sustained economic expansion. We had filled out our territorial boundaries, and the frontier was already encroaching upon the parched lands in the lee of the Rocky Mountains and moving east of the Sierra Nevadas. We were an industrial nation second only to Britain in manufacturing. Our expansion had been matched by an acceleration of economic well-being. The obstacles to American economic growth had been removed before the Civil War took place. That war was a costly and bitter interruption."Integrating economic theory, history, and statistics in this provocative study, Professor North develops a fresh interpretation of the sources and determining factors of United States growth from the founding of the nation to the Civil War.From 1970 to 1814 economic development is seen primarily as a result of external influences. From 1815 to 1860 the westward movement and the transformation to an industrial economy provided accelerating influences on the nation's growing prosperity. Professor North concludes that the export trade, particularly in cotton, was of prime importance as a stimulant to the economy. And he emphasizes the cornerstone of growth was the spread of a market economy, which attracted "an increasing percentage of resources into production for the market and out of pioneer self-sufficiency." Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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It is the sale of government (read native) land that fuelled the expansion of the cotton industry in the south. This in turn allowed the West and the Northeast t develop in the first period of expansion immediately following the establishment of peace at the conclusion of the second English war. During this period, the South relied upon staples from the West and manufactures from the Northeast to expand its cotton manufactures.
During the second boom period in the 1830s (when yet another great land grab had made Indian land available for sale), the South once again expanded cotton agriculture. The expansion of the Southern economy fed the development of Western and Northern economies which then expanded their infrastructure in leaps and bounds to meet Southern needs. The dependency of the South on agriculture was not broken during either of these two boom periods, because cotton agriculture worked so well as an engine of economic development.
The resurgence in the economy in the late 1850s did not affect the South as had the previous two booms. By that time the West and the Northeast had developed sufficient infrastructure, to a large extent fuelled previously by King Cotton, to carry out their own trade in manufactures with overseas markets. The Northeast and the West invested in not only railroads and canals, but also education. None of this was the case in the "Cotton South." The basis for large scale manufacture was already laid in the Northeast and the West before 1860.