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Li Emerges Essay Preview: Li Emerges Report this essay Transportation Steamboats Brooklyn Heights (1819), first American suburb to steamboat ferry Robert Fulton, perfected the steamboat, 1815, Clairmont Cornelius Vanderbilt, steamboat, and railroad baron Agriculture for market Grain 80% of the population Whaling Fishing/ Shellfishing Population 1790: 32,454 (3224 in brookhaven) NYC 1790: 33,111 Kings: 4,495.