The American public school; a genetic study of principles, practices, and present problems . GREAT EDUCATIONAL AWAKENING, 1835-1861 111 to the dry belt. The conditions of life and the stand-ards of living in this semi-pioneer region are describedin the fiction of Edward Eggleston, Mark Twain,Bret Harte, and Harriet Beecher Industrial Development. — It was also a period ofunprecedented industrial development. This is shownby the growth of the cities. In 1840 there wereforty-four towns of over 8000 population, in 1860there were 141. New York City was approaching 112 THE AMERICAN PUBLIC S
The American public school; a genetic study of principles, practices, and present problems . GREAT EDUCATIONAL AWAKENING, 1835-1861 111 to the dry belt. The conditions of life and the stand-ards of living in this semi-pioneer region are describedin the fiction of Edward Eggleston, Mark Twain,Bret Harte, and Harriet Beecher Industrial Development. — It was also a period ofunprecedented industrial development. This is shownby the growth of the cities. In 1840 there wereforty-four towns of over 8000 population, in 1860there were 141. New York City was approaching 112 THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL the million mark. Railroad building progressedrapidly. The first successful experiments with steamlocomotives were made in 1831. The Baltimore andOhio was completed to the Cumberland River in 1860, 30,000 miles had been built; several trunklines connected Chicago with the Atlantic seaboard,and one connected Chicago and the Gulf of country east of the Mississippi River was prettywell netted, especially north of the Ohio. (See map.)There was a similar growth in commerce and manu-factures, following the panic of 1837. The iron in-dustry flourished. The output of coal trebled between1840 and 1860. The invention of the sewing machine,and its application to the manufacture of ready-madeclothing and sho
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