Island / Buffalo / Grace / Newark / Bristol / Ohio Lawrenceburg / Philadelphia / Washington / D.C. / Johnstown / Toledo / Pittsburgh / Portland / Lowell / Portsmouth / Cleveland / New York City / Middletown / Syracuse / Rochester / Worcester / Canal / Boston / Baltimore / New York / Evansville / Athens / Rome / Cambridge / Alexandria / Ferry / Pennsylvania Wilkesbarre / Miami / Charleston / Chesapeake City / Chicago / Ohio Chicago / /
Company
Bank of the State / Hercules / Bank of Pennsylvania / Bank of Philadelphia / Goodrich / Bank of the Commonwealth / Allegheny / Second Bank of the United States / Mechanics Bank / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
United Kingdom / United States / Columbia / /
Currency
USD / cent / /
Event
Debt Financing / /
Facility
Port Carbon / Northampton Canal / Canal Middlesex Canal Morris Canal New Haven / Beaver Canal / Shenandoah University / Delaware Dv Penn Canal / Northern Dv Penn Canal / Canal Cumberland / Pa. Penn Canal / Erie Canal Walhonding Branch Canal Whitewater Canal / Kanawha Canal Lehigh Canal / Canal Chesapeake / Northern Dv Ext Penn Canal / Erie Dv Penn Canal / Cato Institute / Canal James River / Oxford Canal / Hudson Canal / Canal Length / Schuylkill Canal / Pennsylvania Canal Oswego Canal Penn Canal / Canal Route Indiana Original Owner MAJOR TABLE / Champlain Canal / Western Dv Penn Canal / Erie Canal / Raritan Canal Dismal Swamp Canal Erie Canal Genesse Valley Canal Hocking Branch Canal Canal / Union Canal / Juniata Dv Penn Canal / CATO JOURNAL Erie Canal / /
Holiday
Commonwealth Day / /
IndustryTerm
transportation / railroad networks / railroad network / finance / saddle bags bank / bank / manufacturing / bank loans / reckless banking / bank notes / made transportation / law staying foreclosure / transportation projects / banking / chartered bank / /
NaturalFeature
Lake Erie / Hudson River / Lake Champlain / Michigan Canal James River / Valley of New York / Black River / Lake Ontario / /
Organization
state legislature / Virginia militia / New York Safety Fund / Shenandoah University / Cato Institute / AMERICAN RAILROAD NETWORK legislature / federal legislature / /
Person
Clifford F. Thies / DeWitt Clinton / William H. Seward / George Washington / Andrew Jackson / Thomas Jefferson / Jeffrey Rogers Hummel / Beaver / Martin Van Buren / George Clinton / Yassiman Saadatmand / /
Position
governor / and work commenced on the canal / chief executive / Professor of Economics and Finance / federal executive / again elected governor / Major / private Indiana Ohio Ohio Indiana Santee Canal Schuylkill Canal Susquehanna / Seneca Chief / Colonel / Governor / ambitious and capable politician / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / New Brunswick / Virginia / Alabama / Maine / Indiana / New York / Connecticut / Missouri / South Carolina / Kentucky / Maryland / Illinois / Tennessee / Pennsylvania / Delaware / Massachusetts / /
The American Railroad Network during the Early 19th Century: Private versus Public Enterprise Clifford F. Thies At the founding, the United States were a bunch of experiments in self-government (note the use of the plura