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🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast. |
0:05.4 | The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, Mythbust's historical lies, and rediscoveres |
0:11.9 | the forgotten stories that changed our world. |
0:15.5 | I'm your host, Scott Rank. |
0:23.2 | Before the Civil War, the American economy was a lot like Russia. |
0:26.7 | It was agriculturally based, and it depended on the labor of people who didn't have full legal rights. |
0:31.8 | But after the Civil War, America rapidly industrialized, and it became a lot more Western European |
0:36.9 | and how its economy was set up. |
0:38.7 | What was the tipping point? |
0:40.2 | Was it just the emancipation of slaves? |
0:42.7 | Well, it was actually a lot more than that, and it was a story of industrialists who got directly |
0:47.5 | involved in the war effort and radically transformed America. |
0:51.8 | In this episode, I'm talking with Jeffrey Wurt, who's the author of the new book, Civil War |
0:56.1 | Barons. The tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped |
1:01.0 | a nation. |
1:02.3 | Jeffrey argues that before the Civil War, there were plenty of inventions in America that were |
1:06.4 | changing it, but really, except for the expanding network of railroads and telegraph lines, |
1:10.7 | a lot of these inventions hadn't affected the lives of most Americans. |
1:14.6 | The nation was largely rural, with only small pockets of manufacturing. |
1:18.7 | But with the Civil War, it created an enormous wave of industrial growth and development, |
1:22.7 | producing a revolution in manufacturing and inventions, for example, being able to produce |
1:28.0 | horseshoes by the tens of millions. These innovations, sustained union troops, |
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