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¡¡¡¡The story of the westward movement of population in the United States is, in the main, the story of the expansion of American agriculture¡ªof the development of new areas for the raising of livestock and the cultivation of wheat, corn, tobacco, and cotton. After 1815 improved transportation enabled more and more western farmers to escape a lf-sufficient way of life and enter a national market economy. During periods when commodity prices were high, the rate of westward migration incread spectacularly. "Old America emed to be breaking up and moving westward," obrved an English visitor in 1817,during the first great wave of migration. Emigration to the West reached a peak in the 1830's. Whereas in 1810 only a venth of the American people lived west of the Appalachian Mountains, by 1840 more than a third lived there.
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生日图案aracteristics of American society help to explain this remarkable migration. The European ancestors of some Americans had for centuries lived rooted to the same village or piece of land until some religious, political, or economic crisis uprooted them and drove them across the Atlantic. Many of tho who experienced this sharp break thereafter lacked the ties that had bound them and their ancestors to a single place. Moreover, European society was relatively stratified; occupation and social status were inherited. In American society, however, the class structure was less rigid; some people changed occupations easily and believed it was their duty to improve their social and economic position. As a result, many Americans were an inveterately restless, rootless, and ambitious people. Therefore, the social traits helped to produce the nomadic and daring ttlers who kept pushing westward beyond the fringes of ttlement. In addition, there were other immigrants who migrated west in arch of new homes, material success, and better lives.
铁打的营盘¡¡¡¡The West had plenty of attractions: the alluvial river bottoms, the fecund soils of the rolling forest lands, the black loams of the prairies were tempting to New England farmers working their rocky, sterile land and to southeastern farmers plagued with soil depletion and erosion. In 1820 under a new land law, a farm could be bought for $100. The continued proliferation of banks made it easier for tho without cash to negotiate loans in paper money. Western Farmers borrowed with the confid
ent expectation that the expanding economy would keep farm prices high, thus making it easy to repay loans when they fell due.党章修改
¡¡¡¡Transportation was becoming less of a problem for tho who wished to move west
and for tho who hand farm surplus to nd to market. Prior to 1815, western farmers who did not live on navigable waterways were connected to them only by dirt roads and mountain trails. Livestock could be driven across the mountains, but the cost of transporting bulky grains in this fashion was veral times greater than their value in eastern markets. The first step toward an improvement of western transportation was the construction of turnpikes. The roads made possible a reduction in transportation costs and thus stimulated the commercialization of agriculture along their routes.
¡¡¡¡Two other developments presaged the end of the era of turnpikes and started a transportation revolution that resulted in incread regional specialization and the growth of a national market economy. First came the steamboat; although flatboats and keelboats continued to be important until the 1850¡¯s steamboats eventually superded all other craft in the carrying of pasngers and freight. Steamboats were not only faster but also transported upriver freight for about one tenth of wh
at it had previously cost on hand-propelled keelboats. Next came the Erie Canal, an enormous project in its day, spanning about 350 miles. After the canal went into operation, the cost per mile of transporting a ton of freight from Buffalo to New York City declined from nearly 20 cents to less than 1 cent. Eventually, the western states diverted much of their produce from the rivers to the Erie Canal, a shorter route to eastern markets.
满江红岳飞全文¡¡¡¡Paragraph 1: The story of the westward movement of population in the United States is, in the main, the story of the expansion of American agriculture¡ªof the development of new areas for the raising of livestock and the cultivation of wheat, corn, tobacco, and cotton. After 1815 improved transportation enabled more and more western farmers to escape a lf-sufficient way of life and enter a national market economy. During periods when commodity prices were high, the rate of westward migration incread spectacularly. "Old America emed to be breaking up and moving westward," obrved an English visitor in 1817,during the first great wave of migration. Emigration to the West reached a peak in the 1830's. Whereas in 1810 only a venth of the American people lived west of the Appalachian Mountains, by 1840 more than a third lived there.
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¡¡¡¡1. What can be inferred from paragraph 1 about western farmers prior to 1815?
保安队¡¡¡¡O They had limited their crop production to wheat, corn, tobacco, and cotton.
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¡¡¡¡O They were able to ll their produce at high prices.
¡¡¡¡O They had not been successful in raising cattle.
¡¡¡¡O They did not operate in a national market economy.
