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Title: American Economic History GIS Mapping

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: In recent months, events in the news have highlighted the deep historical roots of the antebellum regional conflicts that led to the Civil War and that, to a large extent, still define much of our economic history of recent decades. The early history of the United States, and specifically, the settlement patterns that led to financial centers in the Northeast, manufacturing and agriculture in the Midwest, and plantation capitalism in the South, set in motion regional differences that remain to this day. Patterns of economic activity have also been defined by land colonial acquisition, native American removal, immigration patterns, early transportation systems, locational patterns of early industries, and of course the rich natural resources of the North American continent. Regional differences that derived from these geographical features continue to drive conflict and change in the U.S. economy in this 21st century. This project is utilizing ARCGIS along with data from the NHGIS to develop a series of layered mapping tools to visualize key demographic and other census data that define the key turning points in U.S. economic history and to help illuminate these regional differences. These maps will be used in Economics 418 in spring 2016, as the basis for a number of labs in the spring semester to help students visualize and integrate the changes to the U.S. economy over time and help them develop more original and more personally relevant research topics for their culminating experience for the course.

Url: http://www.bucknell.edu/Documents/UndergraduateResearch/SVURS15-Abstract.pdf

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Authors: McDonnell, Amber

Publisher: Susquehanna Undergraduate Research Symposium

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Methodology and Data Collection

Countries: United States