Bleeding Kansas (1855-1861) consisted of millions of dollars in property damage, and dozens dead, due to the onslaught of violence from pro-slavery Border Ruffians who clashed with Free-Staters (jayhawkers) on the matter of slavery. Eventually, this would lead to the voting of slavery's justification in Kansas, but obviously the popular sovereignty was coated in blood.
Economists have frequently hypothesized that industrialization and its correlates played a major role in inducing fertility decline in the United States after 1850. ... This leaves changes in the cost of raising children as the likely driver of the industrialization result.
<span>A reason for the growth of large mental institutions during the 1800s is due to poverty in that era, causing mental health problems such as depression and problems brought on by the stress and anxiety of struggling to afford to live. This increased the requirement for mental institutions.</span>