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Mississippi
The largest river in the United States. In the 1840s goods from the south travelled up it, and up the Ohio, into the interior of the country.
Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work, Herbert Casson
Explained in
- Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work, Herbert Casson
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay
A French trading company founded by John Law in 1717 with the right to trade with Louisiana. It was later renamed the Company of the Indies. The mania around its shares in 1719-1720 went down in history as the Mississippi Scheme.