1. Aim #24: What was the impact of the Market Revolution 1800-1840

2. First Turnpike- 1790 Lancaster, PA
By 1832, nearly 2400 mi. of road connected most major cities.

3. Cumberland (National Road), 1811

4. Erie Canal, 1820s
Begun in 1817; completed in 1825

5. The “Iron Horse” Wins! (1830)
1830  13 miles of track built by Baltimore & Ohio RR By 1850  9000 mi. of RR track [1860  31,000 mi.]

6. The Railroad Revolution, 1850s
Immigrant labor built the No. RRs.
Slave labor built the So. RRs.

7. (I) REASONS FOR MARKET REVOLUTION
A. Created by innovations in transportation and communication
B. Change for subsistence farming to large scale cash crops
c. Regional specialization
Northeast: industrialized
South: raw materials (cotton)
West (agricultural; “bread basket” of country”
D. Westward migration
E. Urbanization
F. Steady stream of immigrants
Mainly from Ireland and Germany: leads to rise in nativism (dislike for foreigners who are willing to take cheap wages); Irish potato famine

8. Immigration
430,000
1,283,000
1,748,000
850,000

9. (II) SOME INVENTIONS OF THE DAY INCLUDED: A
(II) SOME INVENTIONS OF THE DAY INCLUDED: A. Steamboats (Robert Fulton) B. Canals (Erie Canal) c. Railroads d. Telegraph-Samuel B. Morse e. Roads-Toll Roads-”Turnpikes”
New Technologies

10. The Lowell/Waltham System Francis Cabot Lowell’s town - 1814

11. Lowell Mill

12. Early Textile Loom

13. What was their typical “profile?”
Lowell Girls
What was their typical “profile?”

14. Lowell Boarding Houses What was boardinghouse life like?

15. WHY CAN’T I WORK OUTSIDE THE HOME…THESE KIDS ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY!
(III) WOMEN AND THE MARKET REVOLUTION
Work opportunities for married women were closed to them during the Market Revolution
B. Cult of Domesticity: women should stay at home and should not do any work outside of the home
WHY CAN’T I WORK OUTSIDE THE HOME…THESE KIDS ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY!