01:512:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Vulcanization, Samuel Morse, Simply Connected Space
18 Mar 2018
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1)the changing american population: the american population, 1820-1840 i)population dramatically increased, began to concentrate in industrial centers of. Immigrant boom caused by lower transport costs, increased us economic opportunity + less econ opportunity in some ear areas iv)immigrant + internal migration led to growth of cities b/c agriculture in new england less profitable (some moved west also). By 1810 ny largest city: immigration and urban growth, 1840-1860 i)by 1860 26% of free state populations lived in towns or cities ii)booming agricultural economy of west led small villages and trading posts to become cities. Benefited from mississippi r, centers of midwest trade iii)by 1860 american population greater than that of gb and approaching france and. Urban growth from flow of people from northeast farms (competition from. Ear farms + western farms) & influx of immigrants abroad iv)majority of immigrants from ireland and germany. German industrial revolution had caused poverty, & b/c of collapse of liberal 1848 revolution.
