. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. ency toward increase of city life. In 1790 onlythree out of each one hundred people lived in cities. In1840 this had increased to nine, and in 1900 to thirty-oneper one hundred. The Movement Westward.—After the Revolution anactive movement westward set in, and soon towns arosewest of the Alleghanies. Settlements were made in Ken-tucky and Tennessee at an earlier date. The first settle-ment in Ohio was at Marietta, in 1788. In the same yearwas founded a village, which in 1790 was named Cin- 514 STAGES OF PROGRESS IN
. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. ency toward increase of city life. In 1790 onlythree out of each one hundred people lived in cities. In1840 this had increased to nine, and in 1900 to thirty-oneper one hundred. The Movement Westward.—After the Revolution anactive movement westward set in, and soon towns arosewest of the Alleghanies. Settlements were made in Ken-tucky and Tennessee at an earlier date. The first settle-ment in Ohio was at Marietta, in 1788. In the same yearwas founded a village, which in 1790 was named Cin- 514 STAGES OF PROGRESS IN THE UNITED STATES. cinnati. In 1803, St. Louis was a little village of log cabins,containing about eight hundred people. On the lakes De-troit had been settled early by the French. In 1831 a dozensettlers had built their cabins around Fort Dearborn, onLake Michigan. In 1833 this was a town of five hundredto six hundred people, and took the name of it is a city of more than a million inhabitants. Manylike stories might be told of the marvellous rapidity with. An EanGRANT Train. which the enterprising American people have settled thegreat West, pushing their way in much less than a centuryto the Pacific, and occupying all the habitable territory be-tween. In the history of mankind there is nothing thatbears comparison with it. Routes of Travel.—The Ohio formed a ready channelof movement westward from the Middle States, bold navi-gators daring in rude craft the arrows and bullets of am-bushed warriors. In the South hardy pioneers made their POPULATION AND IMMIGRATION. 515 way over the difficult barrier of the mountains. In theNorth they pushed westward through the forests, drivingbefore them a frontier of hostile savages as they went. The National Road.—The first great national road wasbegun at Cumberland, Maryland, on the Potomac, and grad-ually extended across the mountains to Wheeling, Virginia(now West Virginia), on the Ohio. During the Monroe ad-ministrat
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