The Era that Changed Everything: how the Market Revolution Remade America
Words: 463 Pages: 2 1696Imagine living in a world where traveling from New York to Chicago takes weeks, where the clothes on your back are spun and woven by hand, and the only goods you buy are those made or grown within a few miles of your home. Now, picture a transformation so profound that within a few decades, you could hop on a train for that same trip, wear factory-made clothes, and eat sugar from Louisiana, cotton from Georgia, and flour from Ohio. […]