POLI 100K, Railroads and American Politics: Topic 2, American Politics, Economics, and Business prior to the Railroads: 1800 - 1830

Topic 1, Why Are Railroads Important?
Topic 2, American Politics, Economics, and Business Prior to the Railroads: 1800 - 1830
Topic 3, Railroads as Big Business
Topic 4, Andrew Carnegie and the Standard Railway of the World
Topic 5, The Evolution of Railroad Technology
Topic 6, The Nature of Railroad Competition
Topic 7, Railroads and the Development of Agriculture
Topic 8, Railroads and Industrialization
Topic 9, Railroads and the Rise of the New York Stock Exchange
Topic 10, Railroads and Government Regulation: 1887 - 1920

1. The Limits of Transportation
   
   Travel Times in the Early 1800s
   Albert Gallatin's Proposed Transportation Routes, 1808
   Colonial Roads and Trails
   Population Growth: 1820 - 1860
   The United States in 1840
   
   
2. The Erie Canal
   
   The Erie Canal
   Canals 1840
   Early Railroad Corporate Charters
   The Railroads Eclipse the Canals