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In the last half of the nineteenth century a great boomed occurred in Michigan, this was due to

Copper mining
Farming
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Copper mining

because, in the Upper Peninsula boomed, and from 1845 until 1887 (when it was exceeded by Butte, Montana), the Michigan Copper Country was the nation's leading producer of copper.

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