American Entrepreneur, Chapter 3: Entrepreneurs in the New Nation, 1787-1840

Development of federal government, early industries, property rights, establishing a financial system, industrial revolution in textile manufacturing, JeffersonAÆs land policies, new commercial ventures made possible by independence, Eli WhitneyAÆs entrepreneurial ventures and how his two businesses changed the North and the South, early U.S. manufacturing industries: iron, publishing, and textiles, First Bank of the United States and why it failed to survive. People discussed include Eli Whitney, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Morris, Thomas Jefferson, John Jacob Astor, Samuel Slater, and Francis Cabot Lowell.