What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 by Howe Daniel Walker

Author:Howe, Daniel Walker [Howe, Daniel Walker]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: United States, Politics, History, Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780195078947
Amazon: 0195078942
Goodreads: 1102243
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007-10-29T07:00:00+00:00

Here magic Art her mighty power reveals,

Moves the slow beam, and plies her thousand wheels,

Through ponderous looms the rapid shuttle flies,

And weaves the web which shines with varied dyes.

Here, gliding cars, like shooting meteors run,

The mighty shuttle binding States in one.111

Railroads did indeed have political as well as economic consequences, but they turned out to be sectional rather than simply strengthening the Union. Their network reinforced east–west ties at the expense of north–south ones. Their resources, added to those of the Erie and related canals, further encouraged the Old Northwest to ship its produce eastward rather than southward along the river system to the Gulf, affecting the balance of political power both regionally and nationally. The geographical competition that the railroads stimulated for westward routes, fostered by politicians like Illinois’s Stephen Douglas, was destined to exacerbate sectional tensions in the years leading up to the Civil War.

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