What was happening to the wealth of Vermont during this time period?

Lyddie begins in the year 1843. This places the book during the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution caused a lot of changes in the world. One of those changes was a redistribution of people and wealth. Prior to industrialization, an area's population was fairly spread out because farming and ranching was what large numbers of people did for income and food. The Industrial Revolution changed a lot of that. The emergence of things like factories caused large numbers of people to move into the cities. If a person worked in the factory, they wanted to live near the factory. City populations grew extremely rapidly during this time. With so many people living in the cities and being paid actual wages, the general wealth of a state or country was mainly in the cities. In the book Lyddie, the story begins in rural Vermont on Lyddie's farm. She eventually moves to Lowell, Massachusetts to work in the factory. With more and more people like Lyddie moving out of rural areas like Vermont, those areas became more rural. People took their own savings with them to cities, and those cities might have been in another state. This is what Lyddie does. Additionally, she earns her wages in Massachusetts and spends her money there as well. Obviously, Lyddie isn't the only person from Vermont that would have done this. Potentially, Vermont's economy could have suffered from people leaving the area. Fortunately, Vermont also had growing cities and factories, and the state's economy grew quite well during the Industrial Revolution.
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