One of the main themes in the 1800’s was the incredible amount of deaths that was increasing per year.Most of these deaths were happening in the rural south but doesn’t mean that the main city didn’t have a large number of deaths as well. From the 1850 to 1859 the amount of deaths was rising drastically by almost 8% due to the era of the revolvers. In this era firearms were the main cause of deaths accounting for 25% of the deaths. There were several reasons for such a drastic change of behavior in the environment. Lots of unemployed laborers were going out and robbing people, and stores while others were fighting because of the mass overpopulation in several areas. Another reason for mass deaths was the lack of enforcing law enforcement like sheriffs and police. There ability to intervene and stop violence was very poor. And a huge chunk of the population that was causing these problems were white males.
This is definitely not good for the people of the city and towns because fear has stricken in their lives and there scared to come outside. The crimes have become so deadly and there is nobody policing anyone.The residents of the cities even tired to create their own police force which did not help at all.
I find this very interesting. not many people know about the sudden death rate increase due to the fact that revolvers were created. This was definitely a point of interest that the government should have looked at and found a solution for.
I can not believe you named it this. This is hilarious, but so imperative to the changes made in NYC. It’s also important that you showed some of the reasons for the murders. Nonetheless, best title I’ve seen thus far!