An Analysis Of Causes Of Rapid Urbanization In Antebellum Northeast America

This paper mainly analyses the causes of rapid urbanization in antebellum northeast America, deeply discussing the factors affected urbanization in the specifically periods and districts.The foreword introduces the situation of current research about the urbanization in antebellum northeast America, summarizes briefly the relevant research of foreign and domestic academic communities; introduces the research approach and goal of this paper.The paper is made up of four parts:Part one defines some main concepts and explains space-time scope, introduces the situation of rapid urbanization in antebellum and sums up the characters of northeast urbanization in America.Part two analyses the driving function of market economy system and constitutional government to urbanization. On the one hand, market economy system provides advantageous conditions to local urbanization; On the other hand, the Constitution of the United States and governmental policy protects American capitalistic market economy, which ensure the progress of urbanization in northeast.Part three introduces the rising of American industrial revolution and the progress of northeast industrialization, then, analyses the stimulative function of industrialization to urbanization. The industrialization brings technical transformation, economic growth, population flow and so on. The results of industrialization directly accelerate the course of urbanization. It is becomes the essential impetus.Part four discusses the promoted function of liquidity system to urbanization. On the one hand, the transferring agricultural people, foreign immigrant and crowd of Westward Movement make of the primary content of temporal people flow, which force the local urbanization; On the other hand, the transportation in roads, canals and railroads etc. lays a foundation of liquidity to population and material.The conclusion summarizes briefly the full paper, and draws some views on the causes of rapid urbanization in antebellum northeast America: first, the control of market economy and governmental policy play an assuring role on urbanization; second, industrialization is the essential motivity of northeast urbanization; third, the adjustment of liquidity system impel the urbanization in market economy.