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Americans began to use maps in fundamentally new ways in the nineteenth century, as seen in the links below. All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that might convey complex ideas and information.

1. Chapter 1: The Graphic
   Foundations of American History
2. Chapter 2: Capturing
   the Past Through Maps
3. Chapter 3: Disease, Expansion,
   and the Rise of Environmental Mapping
4. Chapter 4: Slavery & the
   Origin of Statistical Cartography
5. Chapter 5: The Cartographic
   Consolidation of America