1. Technology Transforms Americans’ Daily Lives

2. Life Before 1800
A. A Nation of Rural Farmers

3. B. Local Lives and a Lack of Trade: Benefits and Burdens

4. C. Separate But Equal: Women and Children Work on the Family Farm

5. II. New Technology in the Early 1800s

6. A. New Farming Technology: Cotton Gin, Steel Plow, and Mechanical Reaper

8. Steel Plow

9. Mechanical Reaper

10. B. The Transportation Revolution: The National Road, Canals and Steamboats

13. Travel Times

14. Travel Times

15. Travel Times

16. C. New Factory Technology: Interchangeable Parts & The Power Loom

18. III. Life After the Early 1800s – Better or Worse?
A. Better: More Technology -> More Production  More Wealth

19. B. Better or Worse?
A Nation of Rural Farmers and Urban Workers

20. Local Lives Depend on National Markets

21. The Cult of Domesticity & New Images of Women