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 | City on a Hill/Boston the Farmtown | • | Town on a Harbor | | • | The Great Puritan Migration | | • | 1st Public School; 1st College | | • | Transition—Farmtown to Port | | • | John Winthrop | click here for pdf of Era 1 | |
 | Boomtown: #1 British North America: Salt Cod Trade | • | Triangle Trade: Novia Scotia/Boston/West Indies | | • | #3 Port in British Empire | | • | Cod is Sacred | | • | Ship-building & Scituate | | • | Social Progress: Variolation | click here for pdf of Era 2 | |
 | Despair & Repair: Stagnation, Revolution & Ghost Town | • | Stagnation | | • | Revolution! | | • | The Siege/Occupation | | • | 85% Leave the City | | • | Rebirth: The Lowells come to Boston | click here for pdf of Era 3 | |
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 | China Trade, Canals, Waltham, & Lowell | • | Oregon Seals & China Trade | | • | 1784—Massachusetts Bank | | • | Middlesex Canal & Charles River Bridge | | • | Rebirth—The Federalist Era | | • | Global Merchant Economy | | • | The Boston Associates: Lowell, Jackson & Appleton | | • | 1st Factories | click here for pdf of Era 4 | |
 | Yankee Power: 1st into Manufacturing & 2nd in the World of Sail | • | Manufacturing Center | | • | Sparkplug of Abolitionism—Walker & Garrison | | • | The Irish Arrive | | • | Financial Powerhouse & the Rivals: Phillie/Wall Street | | • | Frederick Tudor—Ice King | | • | Age of the Clippership—McKay | click here for pdf of Era 5 | |
 | Industrial Boom: Textiles, Shoes, & Conservative Finance | • | Shoes and Textile Giant | | • | Athens of America: Literature | | • | The Light Bulb & the Telephone | | • | Lucy Stone & Suffragettes | | • | MIT & Applied Science | | • | Immigration | | • | National Markets—Pope, the Bike & the Car | click here for pdf of Era 6 | |
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 | A Smug Era | • | Conservative Investment | | • | Social Conflict: The Yankees and the Irish | | • | Population Growth without Economic Growth | | • | Seeds of 20th Century Innovations Laid | | • | Vannevar Bush & His Research University | click here for pdf of Era 7 | |
 | Two Economies: Stagnation & Electronics/Healthcare Powerhouse | • | Research University & Federal Funds | | • | Stagnation & Venture Capital | | • | Electronics | | • | Development of Route 128 & Stop I-95 | | • | Pacemakers & Organ Transplants | | • | From Information Dirt Path to Super Highway | click here for pdf of Era 8 | |
 | Mutual Funds, Biotech, Boom and Then?? | • | Mutual Funds: Fidelity & Checkwriting | | • | Biotech: From Kendall Square to Genetown | | • | The Non-profit Craze | | • | Infotech: The Mini-computer, EMC, & Slowdown | | • | Life Sciences & Mapping the Genome | | • | Uncertainty Sets In: Fleet, Gillette & Wilmer Cutler | | • | Flattening the World? | click here for pdf of Era 9 | | | |
