I was researching this that is why I asked for input Mr. Chase.

Then here's some more input for you sir. More than 95% of the adults of New England could read and write. The rest of the north was not far behind. The South had a white population that was reading at 80%. I believe this could have as much a factor for the economic boom as the weather.

Stan I don't want to be remiss and leave out references:

Albert Fishlow, "The Common School Revival: Fact or Fancy?"

Carl F. Kaestle, Pillars of the Republic: Common Schooling and American Society, 1780-1860.

Lee Soltov and Edward Stevens, The Rise of Literacy and the Common School in the United States: A Socioeconomic Analysis to 1870.

Let me interject another reason Mr. Upton.

Could mass production have had anything to do with the economy? This was the era when ballon-frame construction was invented. Today at least 3/4 of the houses are built this way. Before 1830 houses were generally logs rough-hewed by axes, brick or stone or heay timber shaped by carpenters
Another factor that helped ballon housing was the shortage and consequent high cost of labor, "the labouring classe are comparatively few" reported a British industrial commission that visited the States in 1854 "and this very want...may be attributed to the extraordinary ingenuity in many of these labour-saving machines. American workmen hail with satisfaction all mechanical improvements, the importance of which as releasing then from the drudgery of unskilled labour, they are enabled by education to understand and appreciate."

Stan, thse are quotations from H. J. Habbakuk, American and British Technology in the Nine-teenth Century and Douglass C. North, The Economic Growth of the United States 1790-1860 (Englewood Cliffs, 1961) 173. Do hope I reference those statements enough.

Another reason Mr. Upton, might have been improved transportation. Before 1815 the only cost efficient means of transportation were sailing ships and downriver flatboats. After 1815 this changed. To wit: New York state pioneered the canal era buy building the Erie Canal from Albany to Buffalo, linking New York to the Northwest by water and setting off a frenzy of construction that produced 3,700 miles of canals by 1850. Also there was 9,00 miles of rail in the United States, by 1860 there would be an additional 21,000 miles laid.

Oh yes, I forgot, highly mechanized industries like textiles went early to the factory system. All operations under one roof, with the source of power, usually water to drive the machines. This enabled New England to increase it's annual output of cotton from 4 million yards in 1817 to 308 million in 1837. Ah those mechanical people.

Mr. Upton and Stan. Let me apologize for my woefully ignorant posts. My computer is ancient and I can't asses a lot of information so I usually transcribe from a book instead of copy and paste. I shall try to do better in future and present more reason answers and endeavor to meet your high standards.

Chase.