1. Read: The Dynamics of Growth - Document Overview
2. Read: The Story of German Immigrants in Missouri and Illinois (1833)
3. Read: The Irish in America (1867)
4. Read: Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States by Samuel F. B. Morse (1835)

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1. View: McCormick's Reaping Machine
2. View: Constructing the Erie Canal
3. View: A Day at the Races
4. View: Minstrel Show at the American Theater in New York City
5. View: Cotton Gin, 1854
6. View: Daguerreotype of the First Telegraph,1844
7. View: Bare Knuckles
8. View: Ad for the White Star Line
9. View: Anti-immigrant cartoon
10. View: Clipper ship at the New York docks, 1840s
11. View: Cotton mills at Lowell, Massachusetts, 1852
12. View: Know-Nothing cartoon
13. View: The city milk business, 1859
14. View: Boston in 1860, from an aerial balloon
15. View: Water celebration on Boston Common
16. View: Wichita girls in summer dress

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1. View: Population Density, 1820
2. View: Population Density, 1860
3. View: Transportation West, About 1840
4. View: The Growth of Railroads, 1850
5. View: The Growth of Railroads, 1860
6. View: The Growth of Industry, 1840s
7. View: The Growth of Cities, 1820
8. View: The Growth of Cities, 1860

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