Themes in American History

There were still farms in both cities, but they started to die out. Farms moved to more rural cities since the big cities needed that land to build buildings and other more useful things. Insurance had expanded to cover fire, marine, and wool manufacturing damages. After the Connecticut compromise, States were equally represented in congress. Even though slavery was abolished in NY in 1801 there were still slaves in both cities up until the 1870’s. 

New York had developed much quicker and in a more organized way than Connecticut. The main reason for that in my opinion is NY’s geographical location advantage over Connecticut. New York’s port gave it a great boost economically since they were able to ship and trade goods and later on sell it to other cities, making the most profit because the products reach their hands first. Also more immigrants moved into NY than Connecticut, causing NY to expand quicker because of the cheap labor of the new immigrants. New York started to develop earlier than Connecticut so it also had a time advantage. Connecticut was bigger on slaves at the time, because of the farms they still had while New York already got rid of them.

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