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Warm Up11.4.13
Please copy the following questions in your binder: What do you see?
What time period is the top picture? Bottom picture?
What changes occurred from the top to the bottom?
What might have happened to cause these changes?
Agenda11.4.13
Announcements/ Housekeeping Unit 3 Exam
Pt. 1 – Multiple Choice - Wednesday (11/6) Pt. 2 – DBQ - Thursday (11/7)
Ms. Stacey says bye
Notes (Heavy) on Market Revolution
HW: 351- 366; GML.
A New Economy
Market Revolution First half of 19th century Transformed the United States
Roads and Steamboats First advancement was construction of roads
Turnpikes Improved water transportation
Steamboats
The Erie Canal Completed in 1825 Connected NYC to the Midwest
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 9.1 The Market Revolution: Roads and Canals, 1840
A New Economy
Railroads and the Telegraph Opened up interior of country The first RR – The Baltimore and Ohio – began in 1825. By 1860 – more than 30,000 miles of railroad.
More than the total in the rest of the world combined!
Telegraph 1844 Speed flow of information
Analogous to Twitter today. (No Joke!)
A New Economy
The Rise of the West b/t 1790 – 1840, around 4.5 million people crossed the
Appalachian Mts. Mostly after the War of 1812 States b/t 1815 – 1821:
Indiana Illinois Missouri Alabama Maine
National boundaries were ignored Florida, Texas, Oregon
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 9.2 The Market Revolution: Western Settlement, 1800-1820
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 9.3 Travel times from New York City in 1800 and 1830
A New Economy
The Cotton Kingdom: Westward expansion increased divisions b/t the North and
the South Eli Whitney & the Cotton Gin (1793)
Once expected to die out with tobacco, slavery was expanded by the Cotton Kingdom
The Unfree Westward Movement: 1808 – slave trade outlawed 1 million slaves were sold and forcibly moved west
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company
Map 9.4 The Market Revolution : the spread of cottoncultivation, 1820–1840
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company
Table 9.1 Population Growth of Selected Western States,1800–1850 (Excluding Indians)
Market Society
Commercial Farmers: South lagged behind North
North: Integrated economy of commercial farms
and manufacturing cities Farmers now connected to cities through
roads and RR now made more $$
Market Society
The Growth of Cities: Part of the West from start
Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago Grew exponentially Served as centers where western farm produce were
collected and shipped east to NYC, Philadelphia , and Boston
City population increased Markets became even more diverse
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 9.5 Major Cities, 1840
Market Society
The Factory System: Factories replace traditional craft production First factory in America:
1790 Samuel Slater Pawtucket, RI
Quickly expanded to all over the nation: American system of manufacturing relied on:
Mass production Quick assembly Standardized products
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 9.6 Cotton Mills, 1820s
Market Society
The Industrial Worker: Changed the work atmosphere Faster paced, on the clock
The “Mill Girls” Lowell, Massachusetts First time women were sent into the workforce in large
numbers Immigrants eventually replaced most women
Market Society
The Growth of Immigration: Economic growth fueled immigrations:
Irish & German 1840 – 1860
Irish and German Newcomers: Offered political and religious freedoms Irish
Relief from the Great Famine in Ireland (1845-1851) German
Second largest group
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyTable 9.2 Total Number of Immigrants by Five-year Period
Market Society
The Rise of Nativism: Immigrants faced bitter hostility
Most notably the Irish Protestant v. Catholic Nativism: fearing the impact of immigration on
American political and social life. Riots targeted immigrants and their institutions Nativists politicians were elected in the 1840s & 1850s