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-over 88,000 miles of road
-canals
-railroads

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-merchants, wage earners, manufacturers, business owners brought new ideas
-religion/ education were organized

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-based on shipping, fur, textiles, lumber, mining
- most land used for subsistence farming
-high tariffs, difficult agriculture

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-served as centers of trade
-15% of population lived in cities in by 1850
-crowded and dirty

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-19 million in 1860
-2 million were irish, germans and europeans

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-rocky                 -many rivers
-hilly - infertile land
-forest

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-humid summers
-cold, snowy winters