If you would like to have a closer look at the image of “The Mower” that I briefly showed in class, you can click here for a high-resolution image at the Library of Congress. What contrasts do you think the artist is trying to draw between the society depicted on the left and the one depicted on the right?
Also, to get a sense of how much more urbanization there was in the North than in the South, compare these lists of the largest urban areas in the country in 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1820. Notice how few of the cities on the list were in the South.