CONNECTICUT MOVES TO THE CITY
When Did We Become Urbanized?
(From Grace Fuller’s An
Introduction to the History of Connecticut as a Manufacturing State;
Smith College, 1915)
1. From the chart below, when did New Britain achieve its greatest percentage of population increase? Why was this happening?
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2. Population figures for New Britain prepared by the Chamber of Commerce show (1910) 43,916 people. Is this consistent with the rate of growth in other charts? Why?
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3. Which size towns drop in actual population? Where are these people going to?
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4. Actual population figures tend to rise all the time, therefore, which chart more accurately shows the move to the city?
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5. Choose two statistics that show definitively that Connecticut’s population has shifted before 1900, using charts 1 to 3.
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6. Where does New Britain fit in the chart to the left? Please note that the figures in the chart below run only from 1840 to 1880
7. Interestingly the Chamber gives these statistics for 1010, New Britain.
White, native parents
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8,755
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White, foreign or mixed parents,
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17,037
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White, foreign born
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18,015
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Black,
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94
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What conclusions can you draw from that?
(figure available in printed form)