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Apr 19, 2024 · III. Immigration and Urbanization. State Street, south from Lake Street, Chicago, Ill, ca.1900-1910. Library of Congress, LC-D4-70158. Industry pulled ever more Americans into cities. Manufacturing needed the labor pool and the infrastructure. America's urban population increased sevenfold in the half century after the Civil War.
Apr 18, 2024 · By 1891, 53 furnaces operated in Alabama. Old Cotton Mill in Tallassee Cotton manufacturing also increased in the New South era. The number of cotton mills in the state increased, with the number of people employed at these mills increasing from 1,300 in 1860 to 9,000 by 1900. Once considered waste, cottonseeds became a valuable raw material.
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Apr 12, 2024 · Urban Geography is a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. It reveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which ...
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Apr 10, 2024 · 1900-1950 Primary sources including documents, films and oral histories themed around personal experiences, propaganda and recruitment, visual perspectives and narratives, and the global conflict. Food and Drink in History This link opens in a new window
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Apr 21, 2024 · The independent variable for my study is level of urbanization. In order to operationalize urbanization, both “rural” and “urban” environments must first be defined by their population differences. An urbanized area is classified as any location with a population cluster of 50,000 or more (Irwin, 2016).
3 days ago · Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil War Era. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2015, ISBN: 9780226300177; 336pp.; Price: £62.30. One of the oldest and most familiar tropes in the historiography of the American Civil War argues that the conflict posed an urban industrial Union against a rural agricultural Confederacy ...
6 days ago · Following the Frontier Line, 1790 to 1890. This series of maps highlights population expansion into new territory, subsequent gains in population density, and increasing urbanization. Click on map below to connect to interactive features by dragging timeline. Source: Decennial censuses 1790 to 1890. U.S. Census Infograhics & Visualizations.
