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1 .       The boom-and-bust economy in the United States between 1820 and 1860 was the result of the continued emphasis and reliance on agricultural production by yeoman farmers. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       The period between 1820 and 1860 had the fastest rate of urbanization in American history. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       Lowell women were immigrant girls who had to work to help support their families. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       Most early-nineteenth-century cities suffered from violence in part because they did not have a police force. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       While railroads encouraged western settlement in the early nineteenth century, they had little influence on where in the West people actually settled. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       The introduction of new technology in the New England textile industry caused early-nineteenth-century clothing prices to increase dramatically. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       The widening gap between rich and poor in early-nineteenth-century America was most extreme in the cities. [Hint]

 
 






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