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title: "What caused the population explosion from 1780 to 1830?"  
description: "What caused the population explosion from 1780 to 1830?"  
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published: 2018-10-28  
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# What caused the population explosion from 1780 to 1830? 

What caused the [population explosion](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/353/population-explosion-in-india) from 1780 to 1830? \
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## Answers

### Answer by Stuti Gupta

**Young weddings and big families** were common in agricultural societies, resulting in a steadily increasing [population](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81485/india-is-growing-but-population-is-increasing) in the generations leading up to 1830, with just a tiny addition from immigration. After 1830, immigration resumed its upward trend. Although immigration became **less prominent** in the opening [history](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94234/whose-appointment-as-a-high-court-judge-was-quashed-by-the-supreme-court-in-the-legal-history) of the American democracy than that was after the **Civil War**, it added to economic it added to **[economic](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93511/what-is-fta-free-trade-agreement-and-what-are-its-fundamental-principles) growth**. The growth of commerce and industry, particularly in the north, had a significant role in this phenomenon. \
**In 1830, how many people lived in the United States?** Only the people were recorded in the 1830 survey. Zero effort was made to gather **new information on industry and trade** in The Us just after the shortcomings of the previous two surveys. Historical Data of the U.s: Colonial Times to 1970 encompasses a broad range of economic data from this and earlier eras. \
**In 1831, what was going on?** While [President Andrew Jackson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson) faced an emergency of Cabinet retirements as well as the threat of repeal, protestants sought to rekindle community spirit, and [technological](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/44541/how-can-i-apply-to-nanyang-technological-university-singapore-ntu) breakthroughs promised to resurrect the country's leader, 1831 was only a year when enslavement and abolishment exploded as policy issues. \


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