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Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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trous in its influence upon our commerce. In 1793, England, jealous of seeming benefits derived by France from this arrangement, domineeringly Anglo- forbade American vessels to carry food to any port occupied by conflict French troops. She also exercised the right of impressing American seamen into her own navy. Under these and other orders Americans were robbed of much property, and war was threatened; but matters were smoothed over by a treaty negotiated by Mr. Jay, by which the sum of ten million dollars was awarded us. This enraged France, which began to seize our ships; but Napoleon put a stop to such proceedings in 1800. But further embarrassments ensued. England declared all of Europe,from the Elbe to Brest, in a state of blockade, thus prohibiting American ships from entering there. Napoleon retaliated with the Berlin decree of November in that year, prohibiting all intercourse with the British islands. Both sides issued further and more comprehensive edicts of the same insane
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IMAGE Shipping on the Delaware INCLUDES: Penna Rail Road wharf, Penna (ship), Sue (yacht), American Steamship Company wharf, a small steamboat with an S pennant (S on it). Drawing by Frederic B. Schell (1838-1902) born Philadelphia, aka Frederick B. Schell, F. B. Schell. 864 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY - sort; and finally, in 1807, to avoid war, the United-States Government laid an embargo upon commerce altogether. So violent was the reaction in American commercial circles, that our government was forced to modify very essentially this action next year, substituting non-intercourse laws for the first enactment. Still our commerce was sadly, crippled, and was long in recovering from the effects of this blow. It is an interesting fact in this connection, that,in 1803, Jerome Bonaparte, brother of the great Corsican, married into the Paterson family of Baltimore, already spoken of as eminent in commerce.The Paterson interest, through Jerome, was successful in gaining stealthy admission to French ports for what was, after all, much-coveted produce.This, however, was chiefly before the embargo of 1807. This was the culmination of a long period of remarkable commercial activity and prosperity. An immediate and remarkable decline ensued. Before considering the latter, theref

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