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47 terms  life on the frontier was  downright grim for most
pioneer families  pioneering americans marooned by geography
became provincial in the attitudes  in early-nineteenth-century
american  the urban population was growing at an unexpected rate
the dramatic growth of american cities between 1800 and 1860
resulted in unsanitary conditions in many communities
"ecological imperialism" can be best described as  the
aggressive exploitation of the west's bounty  george caitlin
advocated  the preservation of nature as a nationalist party
the influx of immigrants to the U.S trippled, then quadrupled in
the  1840s and 1850s  irelands great export in the 1840s was
the irish immigrants to early nineteenth century america  were
mostly roman catholics  when the irish flocked to the us in the
1840s they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they
were too poor to move west and buy land  when the "famine irish"
came to america  they mostly remained