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1860 population immigration population of states where vintage base ball is commonly played
today territory population African-American population common occupations
publishing - popular authors and titles recent words added to the dictionary music - popular songs, traveling performers, choral societies, opera, brass bands theatre - architecture - Greek Revival, Gothic Revival faith - Holiness Movement,
Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement cultural movements - temperance, transcendentalism, (to come) abolitionism and the underground railway, womens' rights, rise of state universities, land reform politcal movements - dissolution of the Whig Party and establishment
of the Republican Party, rise and fall of the American Party (Know-Nothings), creation of Constitutional Union party.