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1807-09
Embargo depression
1810-14
Uneven wartime prosperity
1815-19
Speculative boom
1819-22
Panic and depression
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1817-40
Antagonism between commercial and farming interests of the South;
commerce especially opposes the institution of a protective tariff
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1800
Total
Population: 5,308,483
1803
Louisiana Purchase
1810
Total
population: 7,239,881
1819
Florida and other land acquired through treaty with Spain
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1801
Thomas Moore of Maryland invents the icebox refrigerator
1819
Jethro Wood patents iron plow with interchangeable parts
1819-25
U.S. food canning industry established
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1805-15
Cotton begins to replace tobacco as the chief southern cash crop
1810-15
Demand for Merino sheep sweeps the country
1815-25
Competition with western farm areas begins to force New England farmers
out of wheat and meat production and into dairying, trucking, and
later, tobacco production
1815-30
Cotton becomes the most important cash crop in the Old South
1819
Secretary of Treasury instructs consuls to collect seeds, plants,
and agricultural inventions
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1800-30
Turnpike building (toll roads) improves communication and commerce
between settlements
1807
Robert Fulton demonstrates practicability of steamboats
1815-20
Steamboats become important in western trade
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1800-09
Average
annual value of agricultural exports: $23 million or 75% of total
exports
1810-19
Agricultural
exports: $40 million/year or 87% of total exports
1815-60
Cotton is by far the most important agricultural export
1816
Tariff of 1816 includes protection for wool, sugar, hemp, and flax
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1810-30
Transfer of manufactures from the farm and home to the shop and factory
is greatly accelerated
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1802
George Washington Parke Custis institutes an agricultural fair in
Arlington, VA
1811
Berkshire Agricultural Society organized under Elkanah Watson's leadership
1817-25
Agricultural societies and fairs flourish under State aid
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1810
First American agricultural periodical, the Agricultural Museum, begins
publication
1819
The American Farmer and the Plough Boy periodicals begin publication
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1819
State legislature sets up the New York State Board of Agriculture,
first organization of this sort
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