1. 14 Forging the National Economy

2. Essential Questions
Describe the growth and movement of America's population in the early nineteenth century.
Explain the largely German and Irish wave of immigration beginning in the 1830s and the reactions it provoked among native Americans.
Assess why America was relatively slow to embrace the industrial revolution and the factory, and how that changed.
Summarize early industrialism's effects on workers and farmers.
Analyze the impact of new technologies on American economic production.
Determine how new technology brought Americans in closer contact with each other, and the impact that had on economics and society in general in the US.

3. The Market & Transportation Revolution

4. The Market & Transportation Revolution

5. Market Society

6. Immigration

7. Market Society

8. Market Society

9. Discuss
Explain the largely German and Irish wave of immigration beginning in the 1830s and the reactions it provoked among native Americans.

10. Working and Living in a Mill Town

11. Female Responses to Work

12. Primary Source Activity
HAPP-P the letter written by Sarah Bagley, focusing on POV.
Discuss the role that work might have played in the growth of the women’s movement.
Connect the main idea in the letter to the cult of domesticity.

13. Factories on the Frontier

14. The Process of Urbanization

15. Class Structure in the Cities

16. Class Structure in the Cities

17. Middle Class Life and Ideals

18. Discuss
Describe the growth and movement of America's population in the early nineteenth century.

19. Mounting Urban Tensions

20. The Black Underclass

21. The Black Underclass

22. Farming in the East

23. Frontier Families

24. Opportunities in the Old Northwest

25. Agriculture and the Environment

26. STOP SUMMARIZE QUESTION