f the Ohio River alone numbering 1.5 million.“In 1820 the total population of New England was about to equal to the combined population of New York and New Jersey; but its increase between 1820 and 1830 was hardly three hundred thousand, not much over half that of New York, and less that of gain of Ohio. If Maine, the growing state of the group, be excluded, the increase of the whole section was less that of the frontier state of Indiana”(Turner 41) Fortunately, new manufactures help save New England from becoming an entirely stationary section (Turner 12). New England’s shipping industry became very strong because it had control of neutral trade during the European wars. “Of the exports of the United States in 1820, the statistics gave to New England about twenty percent, nine-tenths of which were from Massachusetts”(Turner 11).Then in a short period of time, the section witnessed a transfer of the industrial center of gravity from the harbors to the waterfalls, from the commerce and navigation to manufacturers (Turner 13). “Water power became the sites of factory towns, and the industrial revolution which, in the time of the embargo, began to transfer industries from the household to the factory, was rapidly carried on”(Turner 14). A new class began to develop. Farmers moved into towns, and their daughters began to work in mills.Agriculture, though still very important to many New England people, became a declining interest. “By 1830 New England was importing corn and flour in large quantities from other sections. The raising of cattle and sheep increased as grain cultivation declined”(Turner 46). With the cattle and sheep raising becoming more popular, it encouraged emigration from New England because it decreased the number of small farms. “By the sale of their lands to wealthier neighbors, the New England farmers were able to go west with money to invest”(Tu...
