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* LaFayette tour
* LaFayette tour


=== Economic progress ===
=== Economic changes ===
The Appalachian watershed provided almost unlimited opportunity for building of mills and dams to serve them. In Massachusetts,  
The Appalachian watershed provided almost unlimited opportunity for building of mills and dams to serve them. In Massachusetts,  


* Commonwealth system|favorable laws, loans and public policy withing states towards transportation, industrial enterprises, etc. under the idea that such preferences were "for the common welfare"
* dams
* dams
* eminent domain
* eminent domain
* mills
* Lancaster Turnpike
* mills|from 1809 to 1817, the number of "spinner mills" (just one type of mill) grew from 8,000 to 330,000; spinner mills created yarn from wool and replaced hand-run spinners
* Mill Dam Act of 1795|Massachusetts law that granted dam owners rights to build dams that flooded farmland, forcing them to accept "fair compensation" for the lost land, without possibility of stopping the dam itself
* Mill Dam Act of 1795|Massachusetts law that granted dam owners rights to build dams that flooded farmland, forcing them to accept "fair compensation" for the lost land, without possibility of stopping the dam itself
* turnpikes