Why does the author provide the timeline for population growth?
In the reading passage, the author provides a timeline to show how much the population changed from 1880 to 1930.
"1880 Population of the city is 503,185; farms continue to expand
1890 Population of the city is 1,099,850
1900 Population is 1,698,676
1910 Factories expand in the city; population is 2,185,283
1920 City population has grown to 2,701,705
1929 A farmer near Chicago reports plowing up several frogs as he
got his field ready for planting this spring.
1930 City population is 3,376,438."
Why do you think the author wrote about the growing population, and what does this have to do with a decrease in farmland?
If the change in population doubled in 60 years on this timeline, how big do you think the population changed from 1930 to today?
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