1. THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1815–1840
CHAPTER 9
THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1815–1840

2. 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

3. The Removal of the Native Americans to the West, 1820 1840

4. 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

5. Industrial Beginnings
Causes of Industrialization
Textile Towns in New England
Artisans and Workers in Mid-Atlantic Cities

6. Equality and Inequality
Urban Inequality: The Rich and the Poor Free
Blacks in the North
The “Middling Classes”

7. 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

8. Major Rivers, Roads, and Canals, 1825–1860

9. Population Distribution, 1790 and 1850
Industrial Beginnings

10. American Cities, 1820 and 1860 Textile Towns in New England
Source: Statistical Abstract of the United States
Textile Towns in New England

11. 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.
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