By Michael H. Hunt
An easy query lurks amid the enormous controversy created by means of fresh U.S. coverage: what highway did americans trip to arrive their present worldwide preeminence?
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By that latter date, Americans had also surpassed British per capita income, which was the highest in Europe. S. figure. In terms of manufacturing, a defining feature of advanced economic development at the time, Americans could boast special success. In 1860 they stood behind the leaders, Britain and France. S. ¹⁹ This stunning material leap forward was the product of an economic expansion the likes of which had never before been seen anywhere in the North Atlantic world. Long-term growth rates in Europe between 1000 and 1820 averaged below half a percent a year, and even in the lands that would become the United States the rates in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were higher but still below 1 percent during this early settlement phase.
In 1836 Sam Houston characterized the victors in the war for Texas independence from Mexico as “the Anglo-Saxon race” devoted to liberty’s advance. By the end of the century the Anglo-Saxon spell had further strengthened its hold. The predominant racial characteristics of both peoples, as they 34 N I N E T E E N T H- C EN T U R Y F O U N D AT IO N S were now defined, included industry, intelligence, a keen sense of moral purpose, and a talent for government. The English with their admirable record of industrial, colonial, and cultural achievement were close relatives, even family.
Figure. In terms of manufacturing, a defining feature of advanced economic development at the time, Americans could boast special success. In 1860 they stood behind the leaders, Britain and France. S. ¹⁹ This stunning material leap forward was the product of an economic expansion the likes of which had never before been seen anywhere in the North Atlantic world. Long-term growth rates in Europe between 1000 and 1820 averaged below half a percent a year, and even in the lands that would become the United States the rates in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were higher but still below 1 percent during this early settlement phase.
