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Warm Up 11.4.13 Please copy the following questions in your binder: What do you see? What time period is the top picture? Bottom picture? What changes occurred from the top to the bottom? What might have happened to cause these changes?
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Agenda 11.4.13 Announcements/ Housekeeping Unit 3 Exam Pt. 1 – Multiple Choice - Wednesday (11/6) Pt. 2 – DBQ - Thursday (11/7) Ms. Stacey says bye Notes (Heavy) on Market Revolution HW: 351- 366; GML.
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A New Economy Market Revolution First half of 19 th century Transformed the United States Roads and Steamboats First advancement was construction of roads Turnpikes Improved water transportation Steamboats The Erie Canal Completed in 1825 Connected NYC to the Midwest
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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Map 9.1 The Market Revolution: Roads and Canals, 1840
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A New Economy Railroads and the Telegraph Opened up interior of country The first RR – The Baltimore and Ohio – began in 1825. By 1860 – more than 30,000 miles of railroad. More than the total in the rest of the world combined! Telegraph 1844 Speed flow of information Analogous to Twitter today. (No Joke!)
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A New Economy The Rise of the West b/t 1790 – 1840, around 4.5 million people crossed the Appalachian Mts. Mostly after the War of 1812 States b/t 1815 – 1821: Indiana Illinois Missouri Alabama Maine National boundaries were ignored Florida, Texas, Oregon
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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Map 9.2 The Market Revolution: Western Settlement, 1800-1820
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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Map 9.3 Travel times from New York City in 1800 and 1830
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A New Economy The Cotton Kingdom: Westward expansion increased divisions b/t the North and the South Eli Whitney & the Cotton Gin (1793) Once expected to die out with tobacco, slavery was expanded by the Cotton Kingdom The Unfree Westward Movement: 1808 – slave trade outlawed 1 million slaves were sold and forcibly moved west
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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Map 9.4 The Market Revolution : the spread of cotton cultivation, 1820–1840
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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Table 9.1 Population Growth of Selected Western States, 1800–1850 (Excluding Indians)
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Market Society Commercial Farmers: South lagged behind North North: Integrated economy of commercial farms and manufacturing cities Farmers now connected to cities through roads and RR now made more $$
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Market Society The Growth of Cities: Part of the West from start Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago Grew exponentially Served as centers where western farm produce were collected and shipped east to NYC, Philadelphia, and Boston City population increased Markets became even more diverse
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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Map 9.5 Major Cities, 1840
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Market Society The Factory System: Factories replace traditional craft production First factory in America: 1790 Samuel Slater Pawtucket, RI Quickly expanded to all over the nation: American system of manufacturing relied on: Mass production Quick assembly Standardized products
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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Map 9.6 Cotton Mills, 1820s
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Market Society The Industrial Worker: Changed the work atmosphere Faster paced, on the clock The “Mill Girls” Lowell, Massachusetts First time women were sent into the workforce in large numbers Immigrants eventually replaced most women
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Market Society The Growth of Immigration: Economic growth fueled immigrations: Irish & German 1840 – 1860 Irish and German Newcomers: Offered political and religious freedoms Irish Relief from the Great Famine in Ireland (1845-1851) German Second largest group
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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Table 9.2 Total Number of Immigrants by Five-year Period
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Market Society The Rise of Nativism: Immigrants faced bitter hostility Most notably the Irish Protestant v. Catholic Nativism: fearing the impact of immigration on American political and social life. Riots targeted immigrants and their institutions Nativists politicians were elected in the 1840s & 1850s
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