An American history . ley. In the single year 1817,22,000 Irish and Germans came over. A ceaseless processionpassed along the Mohawk valley and over the mountain roadsof Pennsylvania and Virginia. The old America seems to bebreaking up and moving westward, wrote an Englishman whomigrated to Illinois in 1817. A gatekeeper on a Pennsylvaniaturnpike counted over 500 wagons with 3000 emigrants passingin a single month. Sectional Interests 247 At the same time the cotton planters of the South were mov- 336. Exten-ing from the Carolinas and Georgia into the fertile Mississippi eotton fieldsterritory
An American history . ley. In the single year 1817,22,000 Irish and Germans came over. A ceaseless processionpassed along the Mohawk valley and over the mountain roadsof Pennsylvania and Virginia. The old America seems to bebreaking up and moving westward, wrote an Englishman whomigrated to Illinois in 1817. A gatekeeper on a Pennsylvaniaturnpike counted over 500 wagons with 3000 emigrants passingin a single month. Sectional Interests 247 At the same time the cotton planters of the South were mov- 336. Exten-ing from the Carolinas and Georgia into the fertile Mississippi eotton fieldsterritory which the campaigns of Andrew Jackson had freed to the Missis-from the terror of the savage. The invention of machinery inEngland for the spinning and weaving of cotton had increasedthe demand for that article beyond the power of the plantersto satisfy, even with the hundredfold increase of productioneffected by Eli Whitneys invention of the cotton gin. Howeagerly the planters turned to the virgin soil along the Gulf. Picking and loading Cotton of Mexico may be seen from the following figures. In 1810less than 5,000,000 pounds of cotton were grown west of theAlleghenies, out of a total crop of 80,000,000 pounds; tenyears later the new Western states (Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala-bama) produced 60,000,000 pounds out of a total crop of175,000,000 pounds ; and five years later still, these saftne statesraised over 160,000,000 pounds, or about one half the entirecrop of the country. With the attractions of cheap and fertile farm lands in the 337. RapidNorthwest and virgin cotton soil in the Southwest, the trans- fJe^ew westAllegheny country far outstripped the seaboard states in growth
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