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Subsections in this chapter are The Canal Era, Early American Railroads, Inventors and Inventions, The First American Factories, The Emergence of “Women’s Sphere,” and Irish and German Immigration. A notable feature is “A Wife’s Need (Godey’s Lady’s Book).” Primary sources are an excerpt from a Letter from Mary Paul, Lowell Mill Girl and “Letter to the London Times from an Irish Immigrant in America, 1850.”