A history of the United States for Catholic schools . s is added, the totalnumbers over one hundred million (101,179,400), of whichsome twenty-three million (23,301,509) are Catholics. The center of pop-ulation of the United :States has since 1790moved westward fromabout twenty mileseast of Baltimore toabout fifteen milessoutheast of Bloom-ington, in southernIndiana (39° 4 northlatitude and 86° 19west longitude). Thuswe see that the Amer-ican frontier, that is,the border of the set-tled and cultivated part of the country, which at the beginning of the centuryextended along the eastern slope of
A history of the United States for Catholic schools . s is added, the totalnumbers over one hundred million (101,179,400), of whichsome twenty-three million (23,301,509) are Catholics. The center of pop-ulation of the United :States has since 1790moved westward fromabout twenty mileseast of Baltimore toabout fifteen milessoutheast of Bloom-ington, in southernIndiana (39° 4 northlatitude and 86° 19west longitude). Thuswe see that the Amer-ican frontier, that is,the border of the set-tled and cultivated part of the country, which at the beginning of the centuryextended along the eastern slope of the Alleghanies, had withthe flow of immigration gradually moved westward across theMississippi, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and even tothe Pacific coast. At present the American frontier has prac-tically vanished. 701. Immigration. Our marked increase in population inmore recent years would have been impossible but for thegreat immigration from Europe. For many years after theRevolution immigrants came in small numbers, and not before. A MANILA SCENE 54:^ A HIST(J^Y OP THE UNITED STATES 1840 did they average one liinidred thousand a year. Duringthe folloAving decade, however, owing to the poverty andoppression of the laboring people in Europe, the influx ofpopulation assumed very large proportions. After 1870 sogreat was immigration to the United States that by 1900 thecountry had added nearly twenty million foreigners to itspopulation. The immigrants settled mainly in New England,in the great cities (especially New York and Chicago), and inthe Northwest. Very few settled in the South except in Texas;the negroes as competitive laborers kept them out of what wasotherwise a most promising section. At first these aliens came largely from the British Isles,Germany, and the Scandinavian peninsula. They were intelli-gent, enterprising, and active in the development of the greatagricultural states of the West—in brief, they were a desirableaddition to the population.
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