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From 1800 to 1850 the American birth rate declined by 23%

Cincinnati became the meatpacking capital of the United States.

In the 1850s a new institution "the department store" sprang up to market the wares of mass production to a mass public.

In the largest American cities by the 1840s the wealthiest 5% of the population owned about 70% of the taxable property, while the poorest half owned almost nothing.

To travel from Cincinnati to New York took a minimum of 3 weeks.