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To what extent did markets develop differently in different regions of the United States between the years 1840-1860?

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High market price trends, followed by ruinously low prices, have marked the economic boom and bust cycles in the U.S. In 1825, the Erie Canal was a colossal engineering feat that opened up the West for trade with markets on the east coast.

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