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Re: The North's Economic Boom...

I agree the war effected some of the boom but not all of it.

World War II caused a boom in manufacturing but it did not effect civilian consumers until after the war. The United States kept civilian rationing of food, material, and fuel going until 1946!

The Civil War doesn't seem to have effected the Northern populace in the same way. Everyone seems to have been making money and buying anything and everything. In 1862 New York Cities' A. T. Stewart built a department store on a full city block at Broadway and 9th Street, with eight floors and nineteen departments of dress goods and furnishing materials, carpets, glass and china, toys and sports equipment, ranged around a central glass-covered court.

In 1863 free mail delivery was institute. New York opened Saratoga Race Track, Before a crowd of 500, Lizzie W. became the first thoroughbred to win the race at the race track. Boston College was founded that same year, one of dozens that were founded in 1863 in the North.

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Thats $7568.5 in todays money *NM*
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$6,054,800,000 *NM*
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