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America’s History Sixth Edition CHAPTER 9 Economic Transformation 1820–1860 Copyright © 2008 by Bedford/St. Martin’s Henretta Brody Dumenil
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The American Industrial Revolution The Division of Labor and the Factory The Textile Industry and British Competition American Mechanics and Technological Innovation Wageworkers and the Labor Movement
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The Market Revolution The Transportation Revolution Forges Regional Ties The Growth of Cities and Towns
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Changes in the Social Structure The Business Elite The Middle Class Urban Workers and the Poor The Benevolent Empire Charles Grandison Finney: Revivalism and Reform Immigration and Cultural Conflict
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Chapter 9 Economic Transformation, 1820–1860 Map 9.1 New England’s Dominance in Cotton Spinning, 1840 (p. 276) Map 9.2 Western Land Sales, 1830–1839 and 1850–1862 (p. 281) Map 9.3 The Transportation Revolution: Roads and Canals, 1820–1850 (p. 284) Map 9.4 The Railroads of the North and South, 1850 and 1861 (p. 285) Map 9.5 The Nation’s Major Cities, 1840 (p. 287) Technology Celebrated (p. 270) Wheat Farming at Bishop Hill, Illinois (p. 275) Diagram of McCormick's Reaper from The Cultivator, May 1846 (p. 275) Woodworker, c. 1850 (p. 279)
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