Excerpt from An Ecomic History of the United States The rapid march of ecomic progress, the rmal industrial changes of a decade, and the taking of a new census seemed to make a further revision of this work desirable. But more than any of these factors, the revolutionary changes which accompanied and followed the World War made necessary the addition of such new material. Advantage has been taken of the opportunity thus afforded to make a thorough revision of the whole book. It has accordingly been entirely rewritten; the introductory chapter in the old editions has been omitted; a few others have been combined; while new chapters on the Mining Industries have been added, together with a new Part covering the events of the war period and bringing the book down to date. In revising the work the author has endeavored to take advantage of various suggestions which have been made by teachers who have made class use of it. Greater emphasis has been placed upon the relation of cause and effect in ecomic development; it is meant to be more than a mere narrative of events. Above all things the difficult aim of making the subject teachable to young students has been kept in view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.