Economic History of the U.S. Lecture 16.pdf

Lecture 16

1. Lecture 16
The Economic History of the United States

4. Adam Smith
(1723 - 1790) 67
 The Theory of Moral
Sentiments (1759)
An Inquiry into the
Nature and Causes of the
Wealth of Nations (1776)

5. 1776

6. https://www.history.com/news/how-the-declaration-of-independence-came-to-be
The Road to Revolution Was Paved with Taxes

8. Robert Livingston
1746 - 1813
Declaration
Louisiana Purchase
Steamboat
Erie Canal

10. We hold these truths to be self-
evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed,
Declaration of Independence
1776

11. “Four score and seven years
ago our fathers brought forth
on this continent, a new
nation, conceived in Liberty,
and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are
created equal,” 
Gettysburg Address
1863

12. Innovation and the Founding Fathers