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Until the second half of the 20th century, the Old Stock dominated American culture and Republican party politics. [19] [20] Of the 15 leading American cities, 7 elected a Catholic as mayor before the Civil War, and 13 had done so by 1893. The last two were Edward Dempsey in Cincinnati in 1906, and James Tate in Philadelphia in 1962. [21] [22]
View of the camp of John Law at Biloxi, December 1720. The Mississippi Company (French: Compagnie du Mississippi; founded 1684, named the Company of the West from 1717, and the Company of the Indies from 1719 [1]) was a corporation holding a business monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies.
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Depiction of traders under the buttonwood tree A 1797 painting by Francis Guy.The building with the American flag is the Tontine Coffee House. Diagonally opposite (southeast corner, extreme right) [1] is the Merchant's Coffee House, where the brokers of the Buttonwood Agreement and others traded before the construction of the Tontine.
In the early eighteenth century the cattle trade expand from around 30,000 head a year in 1700, to perhaps 80,000 by the middle of the century. [7] Coal mining also continued to expand, rising from around 225,000 tons a year in the late seventeenth century to at least 700,000 tons by 1750. [15]
The primary and most profitable whaling grounds of this joint-stock company came to be centered around Spitsbergen in the early 17th century, and the company's royal charter of 1613 granted a monopoly on whaling in Spitsbergen, based on the (erroneous) claim that Hugh Willoughby had discovered the land in 1553.
The early-to-mid 20th century also saw many factories and service industries opening in towns throughout the region for employment, which served as new job occupations. [215] During the 20th century, millions of non-Southern U.S. migrants and retirees have moved down for job opportunities and mild winters.