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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

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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