1. Commercialized Sex I. The Market Revolution
A. America as a Colonial Economy
B. Economic Transformation
C. Class
D. Urbanization
II. Family, Women, and Work
A. Separate Spheres Ideology
B. The Rise of the Sweatshop
III. Prostitution
A. Description
B. Causes
C. Risks
IV. Moral Reform
A. Middle-class religion
B. Women’s politics
C. Sensationalism

2. American Economy, 1800 Farming Hand Labor Craft work
Local Family Firms
Upward Mobility
apprentice
journeyman
master

3. Economic Transformation
De-skilling
Machines
National market
Artisan System breaks down

4. Class

5. New Cities In 1790, two cities with more than 20,000 (NYC, PHL)
By 1860, forty-three such cities
New York City, 1842

6. “Separate Spheres” Male Female Public Sphere Private Sphere Wage labor
Physical, dangerous
Government
Parties, Army
Conflict
State of Nature
Female
Private Sphere
Housework
Cooking, cleaning
Family
Childbirth, rearing
Love
Nurture

7. Rise of the Sweatshop

8. Prostitution
Description
Causes
Risks

9. Moral Reform

10. Middle Class Religion Second Great Awakening, 1820-40 Revivals
Church membership grows 100K in 1831
Revivals
10-25K people
Intersection of moral and political reform
Beecher family, 1850s

11. Philadelphia abolitionists, 1840s
Women in Politics
Philadelphia abolitionists, 1840s

12. New York Tribune editors, ca. 1850
Sensationalism
New York Tribune editors, ca. 1850