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The American Dream and the making of abundance
This series argues abundance spurred by land, labor, and invention shaped American character and institutions. It notes slavery's role in southern wealth, northern industrial takeoff, and the push from prohibition to markets, with law, culture, and invention fueling growth.
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America
Benjamin Franklin
North America
Franklin
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
David Potter
Henry Shreve
Eli Whitney
South
Cyrus McCormick
Cincinnati
Henry Ford
Crevecoeur
New York
Newburyport
Mass
Lloyd Warner
Stephan Thornstrom
Robert Owen
Charles Fourier
Etienne Cabet
Brook Farm
Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Horatio Alger
McGuffey
Jay Cooke
Jay Gould
Adam Smith
United States