Federal and state governments financed improvements in the infrastructure of the nation by granting loans to pay for the construction of new systems of transportation. The building of the Erie Canal in the 1820s and the expansion of railway lines in the 1830s are examples of these improvements. Besides discouraging aggression against the United States, this internal strengthening led to rapid economic growth. Factories sprang up to supply the widespread demand for products that could for the first time be carried to distant consumers via new avenues of transportation. The young nation soon found itself in the throes of a bustling period of economic growth.
The American whaling industry. The advent of whaling in the United States began in the early 1600s with some of the first colonists. Most of these early whalers launched their expeditions from the island of Nantucket, off the Massachusetts coast, and from the colonies at New York and Connecticut. The whalers stayed close to shore searching for humpback, right, and grey whales. A turning point for the American whaling industry came in 1712 when a whaleship was blown off course into deeper waters and right into a 'pod' or group of sperm whales.
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