Alan Brinkley, American History 14/e Chapter 10: America’s Economic Revolution

Highlights The Changing American Population Transportation, Communications, and Technology Commerce and Industry Men and Women at Work Patterns of Industrial Society The Agricultural North © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Changing American Population The American Population, 1820-1840 Reasons for Population Increase New York City’s growth Immigration and Urban Growth, 1840-1860 Rapid Urbanization Surging Immigration German and Irish Immigrants © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Changing American Population Population Growth, 1620-1860 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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The Changing American Population Immigration, 1840-1860 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Changing American Population Sources of Immigration, 1840-1860 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Changing American Population American Population Density, 1820 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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The Changing American Population The Rise of Nativism Native American Party The Know-Nothings © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Transportation, Communications, and Technology The Canal Age Steamboats Economic Advantages of Canals The Erie Canal © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Transportation, Communications, and Technology Canals in the Northeast, 1823-1860 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Transportation, Communications, and Technology The Early Railroads Technological Basis of the Railroads Competition between Railroads and Canals The Triumph of the Rails Consolidation The DeWitt Clinton, 1831 (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Transportation, Communications, and Technology Railroad Growth, 1850-1860 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Transportation, Communications, and Technology Innovations in Communications and Journalism The Telegraph The Associated Press Fueling Sectional Discord Samuel Morse (Portrait Gallery) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Commerce and Industry The Expansion of Business, 1820-1840 Impact of the Market Economy The Expansion of Business, 1820-1840 Advantages of the Corporation Inadequate Credit © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Commerce and Industry The Emergence of the Factory Transformation of the Shoe Industry The Industrial Northeast Advances in Technology Interchangeable Parts Technological Innovations © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Men and Women at Work Recruiting a Native Workforce Transformation of American Agriculture The Lowell System Women Workers Decline of the Lowell System © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Men and Women at Work Lowell, Massachusetts, 1832 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Men and Women at Work The Immigrant Workforce Economic Advantages of Immigrant Labor Harsh Work Conditions The Factory System and the Artisan Tradition De-skilling National Trade Unions © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Men and Women at Work Fighting for Control “Free Labor” Commonwealth v. Hunt Female Protective Unions America’s Divided Working Class “Free Labor” © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Patterns of Industrial Society The Rich and the Poor Increasing Inequality in Wealth The Urban Poor African American Poverty Social Mobility © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Patterns of Industrial Society Middle-Class Life Rapidly Expanding Middle Class New Household Inventions Growing Class Distinctions The Changing Family Declining Economic Role of the Family Falling Birth Rates © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Patterns of Industrial Society Women and the “Cult of Domesticity” Female Education New Roles for Women Women’s Separate Sphere Benefits and Costs Working-Class Women Leisure Activities Minstrel Shows P. T. Barnum © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Agricultural North Rise of Commercial Agriculture Northeastern Agriculture Truck Farming in the Northeast New England, 1823 (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Agricultural North The Old Northwest Industrialization in the Old Northwest Agricultural Specialization New Agricultural Technologies McCormick Reaper Rural Life Importance of Religion in Rural Communities © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.