In early-nineteenth-century America,

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The statement "the urban population was growing at an unprecedented rate" is the correct choice. The other four options are incorrect. The annual population growth rate was actually slowing down in the early-nineteenth century, and the birthrate slightly increased, not declined. While new medicines were becoming available, they did not have a significant impact on the average age of the population yet. The center of population was also moving westward, not northward.

In Early-Nineteenth-Century America