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What things were built in rapid succession during the first half of the 19th-century?

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  1. Steamboat
  2. Canal
  3. Railroad
  4. Telegraph
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What (3) impacts on the economy did railroads, steamboats, and canals have during the first half of the 19th century?

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[1] Lowered transportation costs

[2] Easier to sell products

[3] Linked farmers to wider markets

  • linked with world markets
  • made farmers major consumers of manufactured goods
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What expansion happened (road development) during 1806-1838?

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1806-1838: National Road

  • authorized Congress

Cumberland → Maryland → Old Northwest

1818: Wheeling (Ohio River)
1838: Illinois

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What was the effect of the National Road (2)?

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  1. Increased transportation speed
  2. lowered cost
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Explain the steamboat development from the 1790s-1807?

What was the effects?

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Who: Robert Fulton (Pennsylvania)

1790s: experiment steamboat designs while in France
1807: Clermont

  • navigated Hudson river
  • Technologically and commercially feasibility

Effect:

  • upstream commerce possible
  • Used Great Lakes (Later Atlantic Ocean)

Introduced in 1811 → 1821: 200 in waters

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When was the Erie Canal developed?

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1825

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What was the Erie Canal?

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Complete: 1825

What:

  • 363-miles long
  • Connected Great Lakes & New York City
  • Financed State Government (Governor: DeWitt Clinton)
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What was the effects of the Erie Canal?

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  • attracted influx farmers migrating from New England

Cities: Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse

  • made NYC → primacy over competing ports→ access to Old Northwest
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Why was New York more successful economically during the early 19th century?

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[1] Borrowed money finance programs of canal construction

most bankrupt during the depression in 1837

Result:

  1. the canal connecting Atlantic states → Ohio → Mississippi
  2. reduced transportation costs
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Describe the first economic railroad:

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First commercial railroad: 1828

  • Baltimore and Ohio
  • 1860s: 3,000 miles [more rest of the world combined]
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What was the effects of railroad development during the early 19th century?

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opened new areas of American interior

stimulated:

  1. mining coal (fuel)
  2. iron (railts and trains)
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When was the telegraph invented?

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Possible: instantaneous communication

The 1830s: Samuel F.B. Morse

  • creator
  • artist & amateur scientist NYC
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How did the invention of the telegraph help business development?

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  1. spread flow info
  2. uniformity to prices in country
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Describe the migration pattern west from 1790 to 1814:

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1790 - 1814: 4.5 million people (accross Appalachian Mtn.)

Mostly after War of 1812

  • flood hungry land settlers
  • 1821: 6 new states (Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Maine)
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What motivated the migration west during 1790 and 1814?

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Mostly after War of 1812

  • flood hungry land settlers
  • 1821: 6 new states (Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Maine)
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How did migrants west usually travel?

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  1. Cooperated with each other
  2. build houses and barns
  3. communities
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What streams of migration took place during the early 19th century?

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Stream One:

  • From: South
  • To: create Cotton Kingdom of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas

Stream Two:

  • From: Upper South
  • To: Southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois

Stream Three:

  • From: New England & New York
  • To: northern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin
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How did migration across national boundaries work during the early 19th century?

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National boundaries: little difference

  • took land under jurisdiction of foreign countries (Spain, Mexico, Britain, Indians)
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What led to the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819?

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1810: Americans (West Florida) rebelled & seized Baton Rouge > US annexed area

  • Drive acquisition of East Florida → started Georgia & Alabama planters
    wanted: eliminate a refuge for fugitive slaves & hostile Indians

1818: Andrew Jackson led troops into the area

International crisis

  • battle of horse executed 2 British traders & Indian chiefs

[1] Andrew withdrew

[2] Spanish realize not defend territory

[3] Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819

  • sold territory to US
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What was the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819?

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International crisis

  • battle of horse executed 2 British traders & Indian chiefs

[1] Andrew withdrew

[2] Spanish realize not defend territory

[3] Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819

  • sold territory to US
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How was the Old Northwest an example of a “borderland” before the War of 1812?

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  • meeting ground
  • Cultural boundaries remained unstable & political authority uncertain

Result: develop internal borderland

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How was the Ohio River a boundary between slave territories during the early 19th century?

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787: prohibited slavery in Old Northwest

Boundary: Between Free and Slave Society

  • Slave State: *Kentucky
  • Non-slave: (southern counties) *Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
  • key battleground (politically) regarding slavery

Region northern:

  • similar Kentucky (food, speech, settlement)
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How did developments in the North and South compare in the early 19th century?

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North and South:

  • Market revolution & westwards expansion → simultaneous

Cotton Kingdom:

  • most dynamic feature of American economy
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How did cotton connect the North and South of the Union during the early Industrial Revolution in America?

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began in England

North: centered on Factories producing cotton textiles

  • required Cotton → produced in Lower South
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Who invented the Cotton Gin?

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1793: Cotton Gin

Who: Eli Whitney

  • Yale graduate worked in Georgia as a private tutor

What: Gin quickly separated the seed from cotton

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What was the implications of the the Cotton Gin’s invention (2)?

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  1. Coupled with rising demand of cotton
  2. revolutionized American slavery

Many Americans thought slavery will die out after tobacco exhausted the soil

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How was land in the South monopolized after the War of 1812?

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Monopolization of Fertile Land

After the War of 1812: The federal government moved to consolidate American control Deep South

  1. Defeated Indians cede land
  2. encourage white settlement
  3. acquire Florida

Wealthy planters: monopolize fertile land

Poorer: confined less productive land

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How did cotton alter the slave trade after Congress prohibited the slave trade through the Middle Passage of 1808?

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Result: massive trade in slaves within

supply labor force required by the new Cotton Kingdom

Organization:

From: Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina

To: Mobile, Natchez, and New Orleans

  • slave coffles common
  • destruction family ties for African-Americans
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How did an integrated economy develop in the North during the early industrial revolution?

What was the result (2)?

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(North) Market Revolution + Westward expansion = integrated economy

  1. commercial farming
  2. manufacturing cities
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How were farmers in the Old Northwest drawn into the Market Economy during the early 19th century and what was the result?

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farmers drew into the market economy

why:

  1. web of transportation
  2. credit to eastern centers of commerce and banking

Result:

  1. increased focus on growing crops and raising stock = SALE
  2. no longer for personal usage
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How did loans integrate Western Farmers into the market economy (1840s-1850s)?

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  • originated with eastern banks
  • 1840s-1850s: insurance companies financed acquisition of land and supplies & fertilizer
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What were the steel plow and its effects?

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1837: Invented by John Deere

1850s: Mass-production

Result:

  • rapid subduing water prairies
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When was the Reaper?

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1831: invented by Cyrus McCormick

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How did eastern and western farmers compare during the early industrial revolution?

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Eastern Farmers: produced fruit, vegetables, and dairy products

Western Farmers: Wheat and corn

Eastern farmers not grow wheat and corn as cheaply as westerners

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What was the greatest western city in the 1860s, and how did it compare to the rest of the Union?

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Chicago (greatest western city)

1860: 4th largest city (due to railroad)

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Why was Cincinnati nicknamed Porkopolis?

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Western Cities: Cincinnati:

“Porkopolis:” named after slaughterhouses

1000s pigs slaughtered each year proceeded for shipment to east

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How did Urban Centers change due to the market revolution?

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merchants, bankers, craftsmen > took advantage of economic opportunity created by expanding market among commercial farmers

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How did the nature of work change due to the Market Revolution?

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Wanted to [1] reduce labor costs** & [2] **increase production

  1. gathered artisans into large workshops
  2. (past: create an entire product) now: labor process broken into steps
    • pressure from supervisors
    • pressure for greater output at lower wages
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How did “Factory Systems” surpass traditional craft production?

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  1. Large group of workers
  2. replaced hands with power-driven machinery
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When was the fist factory in America established; by who?

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1790: Samuel Slater (Pawtucket, Rhode Island)

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What type of working shedule did the first factory use?

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“Outwork system:

  1. prudcted yarn in factories
  2. send to traditional hand-loom weavers to be woven

System: typified early industry

Later: entire manufacturing process in one factory

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Why did the first factories in America focus on textile production? (early 1800s)

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Why: cutoff from British imports (due to Embargo of 1807 & War of 1812)

  • 1814: constructed in Waltham, Massachusetts
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How created the factory in Waltham, Massachusetts during 1814. What factory was it?

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Who: Boston Associates

1812: created entire factory town (included city of Lowell in 1836)

  • textile factories
  • all phases of production
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What was the “fall line” and why were the fist factories established here?

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Location of the first Factories: [including Pawtucket, Waltham, Lowell]

Along “FALL LINE”

waterfalls & river rapids harnessed to provide power for spinning and machinery

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How did steam power in the 1840s effect factory locations?

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1840: steam power

  • factories located in towns near the coast
  • ex: New Bedford, Philadelphia, Chicago
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What was the “American system of manufacturers?”

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system production relied on mass production of interchangeable parts

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What was New England textile mills original workforce?

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Females and young children

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Describe the nature of work for women at Lowell during the early 19th century?

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Lowell: young women (unmarried) from Yankee farms

  • convinced parents: owners set up boarding houses
  • strict rules & lecture halls & free time

frist time history large numbers of women left home to participate in public world

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Why was women working at Lowell significant historically?

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frist time history large numbers of women left home to participate in public world

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Who were the “Mill Girls” in the early 1800s?

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“Mill Girls”:

  • complained: [1] long hours & [2] low wages
  • valued opportunity
  • young women (unmarried) from Yankee farms

not permanent class of factory workers > few years > married, return home, move west

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How did migration to the US change from 1790 to 1860? Who were the people? Where did they mostly go?

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1790-1830: immigrants small part pop

1840-1860: 4 million people entered the US

  • Majority Ireland & Germany
  • 90% to northern states (not have to compete slave labor)
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What 4 things contributed to the influx of migrants in the US during the Market Revolution?

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  1. (Europe) modernization of agriculture and industrial revolution > disrupted patterns of life
  2. Introduction oceangoing seamships & railroad
  3. America’s political & religious freedom attractive
  4. Running from disaster
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How did Europeans modernization of agriculture and industrial revolution cause migration to the US?

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  1. pushed peasants off land
  2. eliminating jobs of craft workers
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How did the steamboat encourage migration to the US (1800s)?

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long-distance travel easier

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How was America’s political & religious freedom attractive during the early 19th century?

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political refugees

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What was the Great Famine of 1845-1851?

How did it affect immigration to the US?

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Great Famine of 1845-1851:

Ireland: blight destroyed potato crop

  1. 1 million people starved
  2. 1 million emigrated
  • lacked industrial skills & capital: low-wage unskilled jobs
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Describe the nature of Irish immigrants in the US during the industrial revolution?

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Men: build railroads, canals, common laborers, servants, longshoremen, factory operatives

Women: servants to Americas

The 1850s: Lowell > replaced Yankee women with Irish families

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Describe German migration to the US during the Market Revolution?

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second largest group

more skilled than the Irish

  • some in tight-nit eastern cities
  • In west: craftsmen, shopkeepers, farmers

“German Triangle:”

  1. Cincinnati, St. Louis, Milwaukee
  2. large German pop
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Where did Scandivanian migrants during the Market Revolution go to?

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Old Northwest

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What juxtaposed ideas of migration existed in the US during the Market Revolution?

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The idea of US:

  1. refuge those seeking economic opportunity
  2. escape from oppression

Idea coexist with suspicion and hostility to foreigners

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How did Archbishop John Hughes try to make Catholicism more assertive in the US? [4]

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  1. condemned usage of Protestant King James Bible in schools
  2. Urged Catholic parents send children to parochial school
  3. wanted the government to pay for schools
  4. Wanted win converts from Protestantism
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How did protestants view Archbishops John Hughes’s actions in the 1830s?

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Raised questions about national identity

Catholics > threatened American institutions and freedom

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What was “A Plea for the West” about and what was it in response to?

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Reaction to Archbishop John Hughes’s actions.

1834: Lyman Beecher

  • prominent Presbyterian minister
  • published: “A Plea for the West”

warned Catholics seeking domination of America

Inspired a mob to burn Catholic convent in city

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What nativist stereotypes developed towards the Irish due to the migration influx in the 1840s and 1850s?

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Irish influx of 1840-1850: Alarmed Native Americans

Those feated impact of immigrations → “nativists”

Blamed immigrants for:

  1. Urban crime
  2. Political corruption
  3. fondness for intoxicating liquor
  4. undercuttiving native-born skilled laborers
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How did nativism compare in 1840 vs. 1850?

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1840s: Expressed politics and streets

1850s: national political movement

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Describe American law during the market revolution?

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[1] supported entrepreneurs

[2] shielded entrepreneurs from:

  1. interference by local government
  2. liability for some less desirable results of economic growth
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How did corporations become central to the economy during the Market Revolution?

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Corporate form of businees → central economy

  1. firms - special privilages
  2. charters form government
  3. investors/directors not directly liable for debts
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How did the American public view corporations during the Market Revolution? How did the government respond?

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Distrust…

Government response:

[1] courts upheld validity

[2] Established firms tries limit competition

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What happened during Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)?

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John Marshall’s Supreme Court:

a defined corporate charter issued by state legislatures as contracts

  • future lawmakers not alter or rescind
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Gibbon v. Odgen (1824)?

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Court struck down monopoly the NY legislature had granted for steamboat navigation

  • unconstitutional
  • Congress exclusive authority for regulating interstate commerce
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How did the new chief of justice, Roger B. Taney, change the Gibbon v. Ogden (1824) case in 1837?

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Ruled Massachusetts legislature:

  1. not infringe charter of existing company constructed bridge over Charles River
  2. empowered second company build a competing bridge

Taney argument: legitimate interest promoting transportation and prosperity

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How did the Market Revolution reinforce old ideas of freedom?

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Reinforce some older ideas freedom & helped create new ones:

  1. westwards expansion
  2. market revoltion
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What was John L. O’Sullivan’s “Manifest destiny?”

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NY journalist

coined [1845]: “manifest destiny”

  • US divinely appointed mission
  • Occupy North America
  • “last home freeborn American”
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How did John L. O’Sullivan’s “manifest destiny” connect old ideas of freedom with the new?

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Americans believed settlement to West:

  • prevent the US becoming Europe (with fixed social classes, and poor)

West:

  1. more land
  2. less oppressive factory labor
  3. increased opportunity economic independence
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How did the competitive world of the market revolution influence freedom?

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  1. self-directed individual seeking economic advancement
  2. personal development
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What were Transcendentalists?

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Insisted on the primacy of individual judgment over existing social traditions and institutions

Who: Ralph Emerson, Henry David Thoreau

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What was Henry David Thoreau’s views on transcendentalism?

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The primacy of individual conscience:

  • political
  • social
  • personal
  • find own way rather than following the crowd

Modern society → stifled individual judgment:

  • trapped jobs
  • no time contemplate beauties of nature
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What was Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854) about?

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  • retreated 2 years cabin on Walden Pond (near Concord)
  • wrote an account of experiences
  • Market revolution:

degrading American values and nature

“genuine freedom” lay within

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what was the Second Great Awakening?

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Religious Revivals

religious underpinning to the celebration of personal stuff

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When did the Second Great Awakening begin and when was its peak?

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Begining: turn of the century

  • Religious leaders alarmed low levels of church attendance in youth

Peak: 1820s and 1830s

Reverend Charles Grandison Finney → month-long revival meetings

  • similar to evangelists preachers of the First Great Awakening
  • warned hell in vivid imagery and promises of salvation
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What was Reverend Charles Grandison Finney’s contribution to the Second Great Awakening?

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Reverend Charles Grandison Finney → month-long revival meetings

  • similar to evangelists preachers of the First Great Awakening
  • warned hell in vivid imagery and promises of salvation
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How did the Second Great Awakening make Christianity a mass enterprise?

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Independence: 2,000 ministers

1845: 40,000 ministers

  • Methodists and Baptists massive growth
  • Methodists largest group (1 million)
  • all levels of society
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How did revivalist ministers use the market revolution to spread their message?

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  • raised funds
  • preaching tours by canal, steamboat, railroad

Shaped personal spiritual destinies resonate with spread of market values

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What ideas regarding the market revolution did revivalists oppose? (2)

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  1. Railed against greed
  2. Indifference to poor as sins
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What was Reverend Charles Grandison Finney’s idea of “controlled individualism?”

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  • importance of industry, sobriety
  • self-dicipline
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Who and how created the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints?

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The 1820s: founded Joseph Smith

  • farmer upstate NY
  • the youth experienced religious visions

Creation of religion:

  1. “saw” gold plated covered strange writing
  2. translated published in The Book of Mormon
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What is the Book of Mormon about?

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Story three families:

  • traveled Middle East to America (Native American tribes)
  • Jesus appeared in one group after the death
  • The second coming of Christ takes place in the New World
  • Smith: God’s prophet
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How was Mormonism different and similar to other religious beliefs during the Second Great Awakening?

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Similarities to other denominations:

  1. focus on the family
  2. community basis faith

Controversial doctrines (due to Smith’s visions):

  1. polygamy
  2. Smith 30+ marriages
  3. Absolute control over followers
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What events during 1839 and 1844 challenged the Mormon cult

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1839: Settled Nauvoo, Illinois

1844: Smith arrested inciting riots destroyed anti-Mormon newspapers

  • murdered in jail
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What did Smith’s successor, Brigham Young, do with the Mormon church in the 1850s?

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  1. led 2,000 followers to Utah
  2. 1852: 16,000 Mormons in Utah
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What broader implications did Mormonism have and reveal about American society?

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  1. limits religious toleration
  2. opportunity offered by religious pluralism
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What idea became the cornerstone of American freedom during the Market Revolution?

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Right to Compete for Economic Advancement

Celebrate opportunities open to “self-made man”

  • Those who achieved stuff → due to intelligence and hard work (not hereditary privilege)
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What new opportunities for farmers, craftsmen, and talented men arose during the Market Revolution?

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  • clerks, accountants, other office employees (Boston & NY)
  • New opportunities for farmers:

opportunities in America and abroad

  • New skilled craftsmen:

Thomas Rodgers: machine builder establish successful locomotive factory in Paterson, New Jersey

  • New opportunities for talented men:

Law, medicine, teaching

1820s: 10,000 physicians in US

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How did the Market Revolution fail blacks?

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free blacks excluded new economic opportunities

  • discrimination
  • poorest places of NY, Phili, Cincinnati

subject assault by white mob

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Describe the development of black institutions during the Market Revolution:

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Institutions:

  • barred schools and public facilities

Own institutional life:

centered mutual-aid & educational societies

  • independent churches (African Methodist Episcopal Church)
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How did social mobility during the Market Revolution compare between whites and blacks?

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White people: look forwards to the life of economic accumulations and individual advancement

Black people:

[1] Time of abolition in North: slaves craft skills

White view:

  1. freed slaves as low-wage competitors
  2. wanted to bar them from skilled employment

[2] Refuse hired for anything but menial positions

[3] Whites do not want to be served by blacks

2&3:

  • the rapid decline in economic status

[4] Not access the West

  1. Federal law: bar access to public land
  2. 1860 4 states: prohibited entering territory altogether
100
Q

What downwards social mobility did blacks experience during the Market Revolution?

A

Black people:

[1] Time of abolition in North: slaves craft skills

White view:

  1. freed slaves as low-wage competitors
  2. wanted to bar them from skilled employment

[2] Refuse hired for anything but menial positions

[3] Whites do not want to be served by blacks

2&3:

  • the rapid decline in economic status

[4] Not access the West

  1. Federal law: bar access to public land
  2. 1860 4 states: prohibited entering territory altogether
101
Q

What happened to the “female role” during the Market Revolution when the idea of the household as the center of production declined? (4)

A

[1] women traditional roles undermined by the availability of mass-produced goods

[2] moved from household to factory

[3] a new view of femininity:

Glorified women’s ability to create a private environment outside tensions of the market economy

[4] Woman’s place at home

“Home:” no productive functions

  • sustain nonmarket values (love, friendship, mutual obligation)
  • provide men with a shelter from market economy
102
Q

How did republican motherhood evolve during the Market Revolution?

A

CULT OF DOMESTICITY

Cult of True Womanhood

19th-century ideology: “virtue” and “modesty” as qualities essential to proper womanhood

  • modest
  • submission
  • complete obedience to the husband
  • domesticity
  • avoidance of personal/intellectual pursuits
103
Q

What was the “cult of domesticity” during the Market Revolution?

A

CULT OF DOMESTICITY

Cult of True Womanhood

19th-century ideology: “virtue” and “modesty” as qualities essential to proper womanhood

  • modest
  • submission
  • complete obedience to the husband
  • domesticity
  • avoidance of personal/intellectual pursuits
104
Q

What social factors contributed to the cult of domesticity during the Market Revolution?

A

[1] Females more power of personal affairs

  • more men let home

[2] Declining birthrate

  • conscious decision million women limit number children
105
Q

What were the disadvantages for females during the Market Revolution?

A

[1] Not freely complete for employment

  • only low-paying jobs available

[2] Married women still no sign independent contracts or sue

[3] Husbands controlled wages

Poor people: entire family need to work

  • domestic servants
  • factory workers
  • seamstresses
106
Q

what badge of respectability did middle-class women have during the Market Revolution?

A

Badge respectability stay at home

Middle-class neighborhoods develop:

  • merchants, factory owners, professionals*
  • domestic servants do housework

large employment category for women

107
Q

What was the idea of a “family wage” during the Market Revolution?

A
  • rarely mentioned: housewives, domestic servants, females outworkers,

The popular idea of social justice: male head of the household → command “family wage”

  • support wife and children
108
Q

Who opposed the Market economy?

A

Who: surviving members of the revolutionary generation

  • feared obsession personal economic gain
  • undermining devotion public good
109
Q

What economic downturns occurred from the War of 1812 to 1840?

How was it perceived as a loss of freedom?

A

War of 1812 - the 1840s:

1819: the sharp economic downturn

1837: depression

  • ups and down in-between
    1. employment irregular
    2. businesses failed

Result: widened gap between:

  1. merchants and industrialists
  2. factory workers
110
Q

Why were the Workingmen’s Parties created in the 1820s?

A
  1. alarmed erosion traditional skills
  2. threat dependence wage earners
111
Q

What were the Workingmen’s Parties’ objectives in the 1830s?

A

Objective:

mobilize lower-class support candidates press:

  • free public education
  • end imprisonment for debts
  • legislation limiting work to 10 hours
112
Q

How did rising prices in the 1830s encourage Workingmen’s Parties?

A
  1. union organizations spread
  2. strikes

Demands:

1. higher wages
2. shorter wages
3. free homesetead settlers on public land
113
Q

What happened during the “Burial of Liberty” in 1835 NY and in 1834 in Lowell?

A

1835: (NY) 20 men convicted under common law conspiracy

  • sought higher wages
  • inspired “burial of liberty”

1834: mill women at Lowell

  • protest reduction in wages

(Again) 1836: raised price of boarding

114
Q

What is one of the critiques of the Market Revolution?

A

Rooted; idea small producer and identification of freedom with economic independence

[1] market economy challenge self-improvement

AP US History School (21 decks)

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