1. ANTEBELLUM “REVOLUTIONS”: and Changes in American Society
Transportation
Industrial
Market
Immigration

2. The Age of Jackson Industrial Revolution in America
Transportation Revolution
Market Revolution
The Indian Question
Mass Immigration (1840s)
Irish
German
Scandinavian(Northern and Western Europe)
More democratic (small “d”) politics
Revolution of 1828
“Jacksonian democracy”
Religious revival and expansion
2nd Great Awakening
Mormonism
Universalism - Unitarianism
Reform movements
Temperance
Abolition
Education
Women’s Rights
Insane asylums
Health care/practices
Utopian communities

3. Transportation Revolution
The period from saw the massive expansion of modes and means of transportation
Included:
Roads (National or Cumberland Road)
Canals (Erie, etc.)
Railroads

4. Map 10.3 The Transportation Revolution: Roads and Canals, 1820–1850 (p. 298)

5. Canals Canal building boom
Erie Canal built to connect western farmers and their products with eastern markets in New York

6. Steamboats and Robert Fulton
Development of a commercial steamboat for shallow river travel
Transformed commerce along riverways
Fueled growth of major river cities (Cincinnati, Columbus, Louisville, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, etc.)

7. Map 10.5 Railroads of the North and South, 1850–1860 (p. 301)

8. Map 10.4 The Speed of News in 1817 and 1841 (p. 300)

9. Transportation Revolution

10. The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was an ongoing effort, over many decades, to increase production by using machines powered by sources other than humans or animals.
In the North
Eli Whitney’s idea of interchangeable parts
Samuel Slater’s introduction of the model factory
Lowell system of labor (Lowell Textile mills)
In the South,
Whitney’s cotton gin
Increased production of cotton dramatically (King Cotton)
Increased need for slaves entrenches slavery in the southern economy

11. Technology Celebrated (p. 284)

12. Samuel Slater’s Spinning Frame (p. 289)

13. Mill Girl, c (p. 290)

14. Map 10.6 The Nation’s Major Cities in 1840 (p. 302)

15. Women and Immigration provide Labor

16. Immigration
ABC-CLIO

17. Figure 11.2 The Surge in Immigration, 1842–1855 (p. 338)

18. German, Irish, and Total Immigration, 1830 – 1860

19. Antebellum Immigration

20. Market Revolution - Change from local to regional to national economies
Expanding Economy - combination
Industrial
Transportation
Labor force (Immigration, Urbanization)
Surplus
Manufacturing - from New England to other Northern states and territories
Economic changes: early 1800s - free enterprise system - rewarded better, faster, more efficient ways of doing businesses.
Banks lent capital for investment
Banks printed bank notes - value fluctuated depending on the time and place that they were cashed.