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New shipping technology increases the number of trans-Atlantic trips and the speed of travel.
Date: 1817
Immigration
Epidemics & disease
This directly leads to the great Atlantic immigration waves of the 19th century. It also increases the speed of transmission of many diseases across the Atlantic, including cholera.
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