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PENNSYLVANIA - LoveToKnow Article on PENNSYLVANIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | The Pennsylvania portion of the younger Appalachian ridges and valleys, known as the central province of the state, embraces the region between the South Mountains, on the south-east, and the crest of the Alleghany plateau or Alleghany Front, on the north-west. |
 | | Population.The population of Pennsylvania was 434,373 in 1790; 602,365 in 1800; 810,091 in 1810; 1,049,458 in 1820; 1,348,233111 1830; 1,724,033 in 1840; 2,311,786 in 1850; 2,906,21.5 in 1860; 3,521,951 in 1870; 4,282,891 in 1880; 5,258,014 in 1890; 6,302,115 in 1q00; 7,665,111 in 1910. |
 | | Pennsylvania was usually Democratic befQre the Civil War owing to the democratic character of its country population and to the close commercial relations between Philadelphia and the South. |
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