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Alan Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation 6/e
Chapter 10: America’s Economic Revolution
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Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution
The Changing American Population Population Trends Rapid Population Growth Burgeoning Immigration © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Changing American Population Immigration and Urban Growth, Rapid Urbanization Irish and German Immigrants © 2011, 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 © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Transportation and Communications Revolutions The Canal Age Advantages of Canals Impact of the Erie Canal Increased Settlement in the Northwest © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Canals in the Northeast, © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Transportation and Communications Revolutions The Early Railroads Organizational and Technological Significance The Baltimore and Ohio The Dewitt Clinton, (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Transportation and Communications Revolutions The Triumph of the Rails Importance of Government Funding Economic Effects of the Railroad © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Railroad Growth, © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Transportation and Communications Revolutions The Telegraph Samuel Morse Western Union Telegraph Company Samuel Morse (Portrait Gallery) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Transportation and Communications Revolutions New Forms of Journalism New York Herald © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Commerce and Industry The Expansion of Business, Advantages of Corporations The Emergence of the Factory Dramatic Industrial Growth © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Commerce and Industry Advances in Technology Machine Tools New Sources of Energy Innovations in Corporate Organization Rise of the Industrial Ruling Class © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Men and Women at Work Recruiting a Native Workforce Lowell System Factory Girls Association © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Men and Women at Work The Immigrant Workforce Cheap Immigrant Labor The Factory System and the Artisan Tradition De-skilling © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Men and Women at Work Fighting for Control Commonwealth v. Hunt © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Patterns of Society The Rich and the Poor Highly Unequal Distribution of Wealth The Urban Poor Harsh Life for Free Blacks Social Mobility Geographical Mobility © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Patterns of Society Middle-Class Life Rapidly Expanding Middle Class New Household Inventions The Changing Family Declining Patriarchy Emergence of Public and Private Spheres © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Patterns of Society The “Cult of Domesticity” Establishment of Women’s Colleges Women’s Separate Sphere Advantages and Drawbacks © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Patterns of Society Leisure Activities Importance of Holidays Vibrant Culture of Public Leisure P. T. Barnum © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The Agricultural North Growth of Commercial Farming Northeastern Agriculture New England, (Royalty-Free/CORBIS) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution
The Agricultural North The Old Northwest Industrial Growth in the Northwest Rapid Expansion of Farming Growing Ties between Northeast and Northwest New Agricultural Techniques McCormick Reaper Rural Life Rural Social Interaction © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Conclusion Sources of the Industrial Revolution © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Patterns of Popular Culture: Shakespeare in America The Booths in Julius Caesar (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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