HIS271Y1 Lecture : Territorial Expansion and Sectional Conflict
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on top of industrialization and urbanization, immigration, expansion, and slavery are also adding to sectional conflict. 1790-1840 the population in the us t ripled, and would continue to double in every 25 years. on the eve of the civil war, there were 33 states. In 1790, there were only 2 cities with populations over 20,000, but by the 1840s, over. This increase comes as a result of massive immigration. The first wave of immigration begins in the early 19th century, roughly around the time of the war of 1812 and continues until it peaks in the 1830s/40s. This immigrant population consisted largely of immigrants from england, i reland, and germany. They were coming in such large numbers because: push factors: agricultural depression political/religious strife, poverty, population growth, pull factors: promise of a better life, the american dream". Industrialists deliberately encouraged immigration by offering incentives to workers.
