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& 97 - Charting the First Census Making the charts, page 96 Students will need just one color pencil for this line graph. Red is a good choice. Students should place small dots on the graph for the data shown in the table, then connect the dots with straight lines. Most students can do this freehand, but the edge of a ruler or index card can be used as well. What the chart shows, page 96 This graph shows the remarkable increase in
population
in the U.S. during the period from 1800 to the Civil War. America
was expanding westward in these years, and conditions were healthy
compared
to most other parts of the world. In addition, immigration
brought
millions of people to the United States. Making the chart, page 97 Students will need just one color pencil for this bar graph. Green is a good choice. Notice that data is not available for the first two decades, so the graph begins with the decade 1820 - 1829. Be sure students can convert the numbers in the table to the numbering on the graph. 129,000 is equal to 0.129 million, so the first bar will be very short. (Each small mark represents 0.1 million, or 100,000.)What the chart shows, page 97 This chart shows that immigration rose rapidly during the period from 1820 to 1860. During the last decade before the Civil War, nearly 3 million immigrants arrived in the U.S. Background for the chart question, page 96 The charts show that conditions were favorable for population growth in these years, and attracted millions of people from other lands. A key factor in population growth is the health of the population. Crowded cities can spread disease quickly, especially if the population is under stress from hunger, overwork, etc. America's cities were growing, and sometimes epidemics did spread. But by and large, most Americans at this time lived in rural areas, and most, even in cities, were relatively well fed. Compared to conditions
in much of
Europe, America must have seemed very attractive to ordinary
Europeans.
Land was available at low prices. Social class divisions were
still
quite rigid in most of Europe, but were much less restrictive in
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Copyright 2018 by David Burns. All rights reserved. Illustrations and reading selections appearing in this work are taken from sources in the public domain and from private collections used by permission. Sources include: the Dover Pictorial Archive, the Library of Congress, The National Archives, The Hart Publishing Co., Corel Corporation and its licensors, Nova Development Corporation and its licensors, and others. Maps were created or adapted by the author using reference maps from the United States Geological Survey and Cartesia Software. Please see the home page for this title for more information. |