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  2. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Improving sailing technologies boosted average sailing speed by 50% between 1750 and 1830. [90] The Industrial Revolution improved Britain's transport infrastructure with a turnpike road network, a canal and waterway network, and a railway network. Raw materials and finished products could be moved more quickly and cheaply than before.

  3. History of Richmond, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    In Bondage and Freedom: Antebellum Black Life in Richmond, Virginia (Valentine Museum, 1988) Tyler-McGraw, Marie. At the falls: Richmond, Virginia and its people (U of North Carolina Press, 1994) ISBN 978-0807844762; Ward, Harry M. Bunco Artists in Richmond, 1870-1920: Sharpers, Snatchers, Swindlers, Flimflammers and Other Con Men (McFarland ...

  4. T. S. Ashton - Wikipedia

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    Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution (1924) The Coal Industry (with Joseph Sykes) (1929) Economic and Social Investigations in Manchester 1833–1933 (1934) An Eighteenth-Century Industrialist: Peter Stubs of Warrington 1756 – 1806 (1939) The Industrial Revolution (17601830). London: Oxford University Press. 1948 – via Internet ...

  5. Zirkle Mill - Wikipedia

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    The Andrew Zirkle Mill is a 1760s era grist mill located in the southern end of Shenandoah County, Virginia. The mill was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 after being restored by Glenn Hofecker, the owner at the time.

  6. History of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Constitutions of 1830 and 1850 expanded suffrage but did not equalize white male apportionment statewide. The population grew slowly from 700,000 in 1790, to 1 million in 1830, to 1.2 million in 1860. Virginia was the largest state population wise to join the Confederate States in 1861.

  7. Industrial Revolution in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Industrial Revolution altered the U.S. economy and set the stage for the United States to dominate technological change and growth in the Second Industrial Revolution and the Gilded Age. [28] The Industrial Revolution also saw a decrease in labor shortages which had characterized the U.S. economy through its early years. [29]

  8. Territorial evolution of North America since 1763 - Wikipedia

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    Territorial evolution of North America of non-native nation states from 1750 to 2008The 1763 Treaty of Paris ended the major war known by Americans as the French and Indian War and by Canadians as the Seven Years' War / Guerre de Sept Ans, or by French-Canadians, La Guerre de la Conquête.

  9. Late modern period - Wikipedia

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    The businessmen of the Second Industrial Revolution created industrial towns and cities in the Northeast with new factories, and contributed to the creation of an ethnically diverse industrial working class which produced the wealth owned by rising super-rich industrialists and financiers called the "robber barons".