IRON WAS CHEAPIER SO CITIZENS COULD AFFORD IT!
Thomas Hobbes was exiled from is home country and remained there for 11 years.
He desired a logical, well played, religiously tolerant colony.
The argument that Carnegie makes about the uses to to which the great fortunes of industrialists should be devoted is that he argued that the wealthy must live modestly and make use of their fortunes for the elevation of all civilization.
Homesteaders faced the problem of constructing shelter very quickly. To
do so, they often constructed simple cabins. Some also made use of what
was in their environment and built sod houses. These houses had the
advantage of being inexpensive to build, as the homesteaders only needed
to buy materials for constructing the windows, a door, and sometimes a
roof, and sod was cool in the summer and warm in the winter.