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Migration to Albany, New York, 1850–1855

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

David Paul Davenport
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The nineteenth century was a period of dramatic population growth in the United States. In 1800 scarcely five million people resided in the fifteen states. By 1900 the populace had increased fifteenfold, and settlement stretched from the Atlantic coast westward to the shores of the Pacific Ocean (Century of Population Growth, 1909).

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Social Science History , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Summer 1989 , pp. 159 - 185
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1989 

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