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-canals
-major roads
-railroads

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-religion & culture were organized
-schools in most towns
-merchants, manufactures, wage earners, new business owners brought new ideas

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-shipping, textiles, lumber, fur, and mining
-variety of industrial
-manufactured in great quantities
-traded for foreign products

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-cities of commerce and trade
-hubs of manufacturing of textiles & other products
-by 1850, 15% of the population lived in cities
-public education & cultural centers

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-rapid growth between 1800 and 1860
-31 million by 1860
-over 2 million northern Europeans arrived in U.S. most settled in the North

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-warm, humid summers
-cold, snowy winters

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-rocky soil
-hilly land
-forests
-rivers
-bays
-inlets