THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1815–1840 CHAPTER 9 THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1815–1840
Westward Expansion The Sweep West Western Society and Customs The Far West The Federal Government and the West The Removal of the Indians The Agricultural Boom
The Removal of the Native Americans to the West, 1820 1840
The Growth of the Market Economy Federal Land Policy The Speculator and the Squatter The Panic of 1819 The Transportation Revolution: Steamboats, Canals, and Railroads The Growth of Cities
Industrial Beginnings Causes of Industrialization Textile Towns in New England Artisans and Workers in Mid-Atlantic Cities
Equality and Inequality Urban Inequality: The Rich and the Poor Free Blacks in the North The “Middling Classes”
The Revolution in Social Relationships The Attack on the Professions The Challenge to Family Authority Wives and Husband Horizontal Allegiances and the Rise of Voluntary Associations
Major Rivers, Roads, and Canals, 1825–1860
Population Distribution, 1790 and 1850 Industrial Beginnings
American Cities, 1820 and 1860 Textile Towns in New England Source: Statistical Abstract of the United States Textile Towns in New England
U.S. Manufacturing Employment, 1820 and 1850 Source: Historical Atlas of the United States, 2nd ed. (Washington,D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1993), p. 148. Reprinted by permission of National Geographic Maps/National Geographic Society Image Collection