The United States was an overwhelmingly Rural society before the Civil War and for some time afterward.
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But these were exceptions.
New England\'s mill towns were already well known, and Chicago\'s growth elicited awe.
Brooklyn, which had been farmland at the time of the American Revolution, was itself home to 250,000.
In 1860, Manhattan\'s population was nearing a million.
There were cities and factories, of course, especially in the northern seaboard states.
The United States was an overwhelmingly Rural society before the Civil War and for some time afterward