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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Outline of the development of the internal commerce of the United States, by T.W. van Mettre This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Outline of the development of the internal commerce of the United States 1789-1900 Author: T.W. van Mettre Release Date: May 24, 2008 [EBook #25588] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUTLINE--INTERNAL COMMERCE--U.S. *** Produced by Frank van Drogen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) An Outline of the Development OF THE Internal Commerce of the United States 1789-1900 By T. W. VAN METRE Thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Ph.D. BALTIMORE WILLIAMS & WILKINS CO. 1913 AN OUTLINE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERNAL COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES, 1789-1900[1] [1] In this paper, which is a brief abstract of a work to be published later, an attempt is made to outline the history of the development of the internal commerce of the United States after the formation of the Union in 1789. The term "internal commerce," though in its fullest signification embracing every purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities between the individuals of a country together with the business of transmitting intelligence and of transporting persons and things from place to place, is here used primarily as applying to the interchanges of commodities among the various sections of the United States carried on over interior lines of transportation--the rivers, highways, canals, lakes and railroads. I 1789-1830 At the beginning of the national era the internal commerce of the United States gave small promise of the tremendous development it was to undergo during the ensuing century. There was as yet too little differentiation of occupation to give rise to a large interstate trade in native products, and the proximi
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