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Page 1: Extreme Upgrade
Manufacturing boom, 1870
Chicago Exposition, 1876
Steam engines, 1870
Page 2: Wounds that Don't Heal
Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Freedmen's Bureau, 1865-1872
First KKK, 1865-1872 map
Page 3: Permanently Stunted?
Southern ruin, 1870
Stunted southern growth, 1860-1870 map
Value of southern slaves
Page 4: Everything Needs Iron
Iron and coal, 1870 map
Cast iron
Wrought iron
Page 5: East Meets West
Transcontinental railroad, 1869 map
Locomotive diagram, 1870
Railroad expansion, 1870 map
Page 6: Infrastructure Spending
Government railroad land grants, 1870s map
Rail Stops Become Towns, 1870s map
Homestead Act, 1862-1890 map
| Page 7: Clash of Titans
Hot railroad money, 1870s
Creative railroad financing, 1850-1870
Foreign investment in railroads, 1870-1890
Page 8: Panic of 1873
Panic of 1873
15th Amendment and Black vote, 1870
Blacks in Congress, 1871
Page 9: Factories and products
Steam vs waterpower, 1870 map
Factories, 1870
Waterpower, 1870 map
Page 10: Horses and Manual Labor
Horsepower, 1870
Farm equipment, 1870
Small farm equipment, 1870
Page 11: Crops Need Water
Yearly rainfall map
Nebraska prairie, 1870
Farmland, 1870 map
Page 12: Striking it Rich
Western gold and silver, 1870
Western silver boom, 1870 map
Mining equipment, 1870
| Page 13: City Portraits
Battle Creek, Michigan, 1870
Bangor, Maine, 1870
Sandusky, Ohio, 1870
Page 14: Reaching Customers
Advertising, 1870
Home Goods Ads, 1870
Industrial Ads, 1870
Page 15: Yellow Pages
City Directories, 1870
Business Listings, 1870
Civic Institution Listings, 1870
Page 16: Super-sized Census
Census of 1870
Industry Listings, 1870
Manufacturing Listings, 1870 Page 17: Emerging from Conflict
Industrial Era brings big change, 1870
American transformation, 1850-1870 map
Population density, 1860-1870 map |
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