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►“Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperity”: New Evidence on the Internal Migration of Americans, … PK Hall, S Ruggles, LRM Trends - The Journal of American History, 2004 - historycooperative.org The quantity and character of internal migration in the American past is a contentious historiographical issue. Over a century ago, Frederick Jackson Turner pointed to westward migration as a safety valve that profoundly ... Rural Experience and the Development of the Middle Class: The Power of Culture and Tangible … N Marshall - American Nineteenth Century History, 2007 - informaworld.com Northern Americans with rural roots were central to the development of a middle class. In the antebellum era, life in the countryside prepared many for entry into a fluid society. The human products of a developing agricultural ...
Richard Steckel, "Household Migration and Rural Settlement in the United States, 1850-1860" Explorations in Economic History This paper utilizes a national sample of nearly 1,600 households linked in the census manuscript schedules to investigate causes and consequences of migration to urban areas during the midst of America's industrial revolution. Although record linkage was limited to the subset of households that had at least one child in 1850, the data are relatively rich in socioeconomic information. A regional analysis of migration and occupational change shows that while established households were generally mobile, they were extraordinarily reluctant to commit labor to urban- industrial pursuits. The evidence suggests that the presence of children, retraining costs, lack of control over fertility, risk aversion, and an unfavorable view of urban areas by rural residents contributed to their avoidance of cities and towns. The findings also contribute to debates over the compression of the wage structure and the extent of socioeconomic mobility. Explorations in Economic History Volume 26, Issue 2, April 1989, Pages 190-218 Migration and political conflict: Precincts in the Midwest on the eve of the Civil War.Preview By: Steckel, Richard H.. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Spring98, Vol. 28 Issue 4, p583, 21p, 9 charts; (AN 420450)
AbstractOrganized markets in public lands enabled large slaveholders to establish a foothold on the frontier, often in advance of their actual settlement. Their "pre-emptive" purchases of prime cotton lands fostered the regional differentiation of territory by displacing yeoman households to more marginal soils. An analysis of the land market in western Georgia in the 1820s demonstrates the regional patterning of the new territory at the very onset of settlement. The state's land policy, a lottery system, ordained this outcome, as it instituted markets in public lands to which wealthy slaveholders had greater access.Sunday, August 17, 2008
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