National Transformation Unit 4 Chapters 9-11
The Market Revolution
A. The Transportation Revolution Roads By 1832, nearly 2400 mi. of road connected most major cities. First Turnpike- 1790 Lancaster, PA
A. The Transportation Revolution The Cumberland or National Road - 1811
A. The Transportation Revolution Canals The Erie Canal System
Mechanical Inventions Steamboats The Clermont - 1807 Robert Fulton
A. The Transportation Revolution Railroads *1830-13 miles of track built by Baltimore & Ohio RR *By 1850-9000 mi. of RR track *By 1860-31,000 miles.
B. The Growth of Industry Mechanical Inventions 1800-41 patents were approved. 1860-4,357 patents were approved
The Growth of Industry Factory System Samuel Slater
Eli Whitney: the Cotton Gin And Interchangeable Parts
Mechanical Inventions Elias Howe
The Growth of Industry Corporations for Raising Capital
The Growth of Industry The Waltham-Lowell System
Mechanical Inventions & Farming Cyrus McCormick John Deere Steel Plow Mechanical Reaper
What impact did Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) have on the Market Revolution?
IMPACTS OF THE MARKET REVOLUTION
King Cotton The South
The South It s peculiar institution Denmark Vesey (1822) Nat Turner (1831)
Commercial Agriculture The Midwest
The Northeast $During the American Revolution, 45% of all wealth in the top 10% of the population. $1845 Boston à top 4% owned over 65% of the wealth. $1860 Philadelphia à top 1% owned over 50% of the wealth.
The Northeast Workingmen s Party Robert Owens & others Early labor unions & and worker oriented parties were local, social, & weak.
The Northeast Urbanization 1820 1860
The Northeast Immigration
The Irish Immigration
Immigration The Germans
Nativism Immigration American or Know-Nothing Party
Did the Market Revolution make America a more or less democratic society? How so?
Politics of the Common Man Universal Male Suffrage
Politics of the Common Man Nominating Conventions Replaced caucuses Popular Election of the Electors Popular Campaigning -mudslinging
Politics of the Common Man Spoils System & Rotation of Officeholders -party machines Rise of 3rd Parties or Minor Parties
The Election of 1824 John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William Crawford, & Andrew Jackson A Corrupt Bargain
Andrew Jackson (1829-1836) Domestic Issues
Andrew Jackson (1829-1836) Domestic Issues -Tariff of 1828 -The South Carolina Exposition -Tariff of 1832 -Columbia Convention -Force Bill -Tariff of 1833
Domestic Issues Native Americans -Worcester v. Georgia (1832) -Indian Removal Act (1830)
Domestic Issues Native Americans -Trail of Tears (1838-1839)
Domestic Issues Bank Crisis Nicholas Biddle Henry Clay Jackson
Domestic Issues Specie Circular
Effects Bank notes lost value Land sales plummeted Credit was less available Businesses began to fail Unemployment Rose
Martin Van Buren (1837-1840) Domestic Issues -Panic of 1837 -Texas Revolution of 1836
Election of 1840
Effects of the Jacksonian Era Triumph of populist democratic style Reaffirmation of the 2 party system Expansion of presidential power
The Second Great Awakening Charles Finney
The Second Great Awakening The Mormons Joseph Smith
Transcendentalism Emerson Thoreau Nature (1832) Self-Reliance (1841) Walden (1854) Civil Disobedience (1849) The American Scholar (1837) R3-1/3/4/5
Social Reforms The Temperance Movement American Temperance Society (1826) Neal Dow
Social Reforms Public Asylums & Penitentiaries Dorothea Dix
Social Reform Public Education Horace Mann
Social Reform Women s Rights Movement -Cult of Domesticity -Separate Spheres Concept
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments 1848 Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If Women Had Their Way!
Abolitionism
Abolitionism American Colonization Society American Antislavery Society Liberty Party Birney Garrison
Abolitionism Black Abolitionists Frederick Douglass
Abolitionism Violent Abolitionism David Walker Henry Highland Garnet