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• A New Economy
• Market Society
• The Free Individual
• The Limits of Prosperity
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company
A watercolor from 1830 depicts the Erie Canal five
years after it opened.
A New Economy
 Focus Question:
What were the main elements of the
market revolution?
A New Economy
• Roads and Steamboats
• The Erie Canal
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 9.1 The Market Revolution: Roads and Canals, 1840
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An 1810 advertisement for a stagecoach route
linking Boston and Sandwich, Massachusetts
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyGreat Seal of Ohio
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
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An 1837 copy of a color drawing that accompanied
a patent application for a type of raft designed in 1818
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyA view of New York City in 1849
A New Economy
• Railroads and the Telegraph
A New Economy
• The Rise of the West
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Map 9.2 The Market Revolution: Western Settlement,
1800–1820
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Map 9.3 Travel times from New York City in 1800 and 1830
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Table 9.1 Population Growth of Selected
Western States, 1800–1850 (Excluding Indians)
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An 1827 engraving designed to show the feasibility
of railroads driven by steam-powered locomotives
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A watercolor by the artist Edwin Whitefield depicts a
squatter’s cabin in the Minnesota woods.
A New Economy
• The Cotton Kingdom
• The Unfree Westward Movement
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
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Map 9.4 The Market Revolution: the spread of cotton
cultivation, 1820–1840
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanySlave Trader, Sold to Tennessee
Market Society
 Focus Question:
How did the market revolution spark
social change?
Market Society
• Commercial Farmers
Market Society
• The Growth of Cities
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 9.5 Major Cities, 1840
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
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A painting of Cincinnati, self-styled Queen
City of the West, from 1835
Market Society
• The Factory System
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Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 9.6 Cotton Mills, 1820s
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Manufacturing Workshop in
New York City
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Mill on the Brandywine, an 1830 watercolor
of a Pennsylvania paper mill
Market Society
• The Industrial Worker
• The “Mill Girls”
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A broadside from 1853, illustrating the
long hours of work in the textile mills
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Women at work tending machines in the Lowell
textile mills
Market Society
• The Growth of Immigration
• Irish and German Newcomers
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Table 9.2 Total Number of Immigrants
by Five-Year Period
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Young Women Workers from the
Amoskeag Textile Mills
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Currency issued by Bank Sanford,
Maine
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Although our image of the West emphasizes the
lone pioneer, many migrants settled in tightly knit
communities and worked cooperatively.
Market Society
• The Rise of Nativism
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Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyFigure 9.1 Sources of Immigration
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Riot in Philadelphia
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Ursuline Convent in
Charlestown, Massachusetts
Market Society
• The Transformation of Law
The Free Individual
 Focus Question:
How did the meanings of American
freedom change in this period?
The Free Individual
• The West and Freedom
The Free Individual
• The Transcendentalists
• Individualism
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyThe daguerreotype, an early form of photography
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
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Kindred Spirits
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyTitle Page of Walden
The Free Individual
• The Second Great Awakening
• The Awakening’s Impact
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Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyReligious Camp Meeting, a watercolor from the late 1830s
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyDas neue Jerusalem (The New Jerusalem)
The Free Individual
• The Emergence of Mormonism
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Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois
The Limits of
Prosperity
 Focus Question:
How did the market revolution affect the
lives of workers, women, and African-
Americans?
The Limits of
Prosperity
• Liberty and Prosperity
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company
Pat Lyon at the Forge, an 1826–1827 painting of a
prosperous blacksmith
The Limits of
Prosperity
• Race and Opportunity
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company
Juliann Jane Tillman, a preacher in the African
Methodist Episcopal Church
The Limits of
Prosperity
• The Cult of Domesticity
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Married
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A woman with a sewing machine, in an
undated photograph.
The Limits of
Prosperity
• Women and Work
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An image from a female infant’s 1830 birth and baptismal
certificate
The Limits of
Prosperity
• The Early Labor Movement
• The “Liberty of Living”
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company
No More Grinding the Poor—But Liberty and the
Rights of Man
Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company
The Shoemakers’ Strike in Lynn—Procession in the Midst
of a Snow-Storm, of Eight Hundred Women Operatives
Review
• A New Economy
Focus Question: What were the main elements of the market
revolution?
• Market Society
Focus Question: How did the market revolution spark social change?
• The Free Individual
Focus Question: How did the meanings of American freedom change
in this period?
• The Limits of Prosperity
Focus Question: How did the market revolution affect the lives of
workers, women, and African-Americans?
MEDIA LINKS
—— Chapter 9 ——
Order Title Filename Media link
1 Eric Foner on the
market revolution, pt 2
question055 http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?
p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question055
2 Eric Foner on the
cotton kingdom
cotton_kingdom http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?
p=/college/history/foner4/&f=cotton_kingdom
3
Eric Foner on
westward expansion in
the 19th century
question057 http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?
p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question057
4 Eric Foner on the
abolitionist movement
question058 http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?
p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question058
5 Eric Foner on
Mormons as an
American and global
phenomenon
mormon_pheno
menon
http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?
p=/college/history/foner4/&f=mormon_phenomenon
Next Lecture PREVIEW:
—— Chapter 9 ——
Democracy in America,
1815–1840
• The Triumph of Democracy
• Nationalism and Its Discontents
• Nation, Section, and Party
• The Age of Jackson
• The Bank War and After
Norton Lecture Slides
Independent and Employee-Owned
http://wwnorton.com/college/history/give-me-liberty4/
by
Eric Foner
This concludes the Norton Lecture Slides
Slide Set for Chapter 9
Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY
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  • 2. Lecture Preview • A New Economy • Market Society • The Free Individual • The Limits of Prosperity
  • 3. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company A watercolor from 1830 depicts the Erie Canal five years after it opened.
  • 4. A New Economy  Focus Question: What were the main elements of the market revolution?
  • 5. A New Economy • Roads and Steamboats • The Erie Canal
  • 6. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 9.1 The Market Revolution: Roads and Canals, 1840
  • 7. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company An 1810 advertisement for a stagecoach route linking Boston and Sandwich, Massachusetts
  • 8. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyGreat Seal of Ohio
  • 9. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company An 1837 copy of a color drawing that accompanied a patent application for a type of raft designed in 1818
  • 10. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyA view of New York City in 1849
  • 11. A New Economy • Railroads and the Telegraph
  • 12. A New Economy • The Rise of the West
  • 13. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Map 9.2 The Market Revolution: Western Settlement, 1800–1820
  • 14. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Map 9.3 Travel times from New York City in 1800 and 1830
  • 15. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Table 9.1 Population Growth of Selected Western States, 1800–1850 (Excluding Indians)
  • 16. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company An 1827 engraving designed to show the feasibility of railroads driven by steam-powered locomotives
  • 17. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company A watercolor by the artist Edwin Whitefield depicts a squatter’s cabin in the Minnesota woods.
  • 18. A New Economy • The Cotton Kingdom • The Unfree Westward Movement
  • 19. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Map 9.4 The Market Revolution: the spread of cotton cultivation, 1820–1840
  • 20. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanySlave Trader, Sold to Tennessee
  • 21. Market Society  Focus Question: How did the market revolution spark social change?
  • 23. Market Society • The Growth of Cities
  • 24. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 9.5 Major Cities, 1840
  • 25. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company A painting of Cincinnati, self-styled Queen City of the West, from 1835
  • 26. Market Society • The Factory System
  • 27. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 9.6 Cotton Mills, 1820s
  • 28. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Manufacturing Workshop in New York City
  • 29. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Mill on the Brandywine, an 1830 watercolor of a Pennsylvania paper mill
  • 30. Market Society • The Industrial Worker • The “Mill Girls”
  • 31. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company A broadside from 1853, illustrating the long hours of work in the textile mills
  • 32. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Women at work tending machines in the Lowell textile mills
  • 33. Market Society • The Growth of Immigration • Irish and German Newcomers
  • 34. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Table 9.2 Total Number of Immigrants by Five-Year Period
  • 35. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Young Women Workers from the Amoskeag Textile Mills
  • 36. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Currency issued by Bank Sanford, Maine
  • 37. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Although our image of the West emphasizes the lone pioneer, many migrants settled in tightly knit communities and worked cooperatively.
  • 38. Market Society • The Rise of Nativism
  • 39. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyFigure 9.1 Sources of Immigration
  • 40. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Riot in Philadelphia
  • 41. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts
  • 42. Market Society • The Transformation of Law
  • 43. The Free Individual  Focus Question: How did the meanings of American freedom change in this period?
  • 44. The Free Individual • The West and Freedom
  • 45. The Free Individual • The Transcendentalists • Individualism
  • 46. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyThe daguerreotype, an early form of photography
  • 47. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Kindred Spirits
  • 48. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyTitle Page of Walden
  • 49. The Free Individual • The Second Great Awakening • The Awakening’s Impact
  • 50. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyReligious Camp Meeting, a watercolor from the late 1830s
  • 51. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & CompanyDas neue Jerusalem (The New Jerusalem)
  • 52. The Free Individual • The Emergence of Mormonism
  • 53. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois
  • 54. The Limits of Prosperity  Focus Question: How did the market revolution affect the lives of workers, women, and African- Americans?
  • 55. The Limits of Prosperity • Liberty and Prosperity
  • 56. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Pat Lyon at the Forge, an 1826–1827 painting of a prosperous blacksmith
  • 57. The Limits of Prosperity • Race and Opportunity
  • 58. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Juliann Jane Tillman, a preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
  • 59. The Limits of Prosperity • The Cult of Domesticity
  • 60. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company Married
  • 61. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company A woman with a sewing machine, in an undated photograph.
  • 63. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company An image from a female infant’s 1830 birth and baptismal certificate
  • 64. The Limits of Prosperity • The Early Labor Movement • The “Liberty of Living”
  • 65. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company No More Grinding the Poor—But Liberty and the Rights of Man
  • 66. Give Me Liberty!: An American History, 4th Edition Copyright © 2013 W.W. Norton & Company The Shoemakers’ Strike in Lynn—Procession in the Midst of a Snow-Storm, of Eight Hundred Women Operatives
  • 67. Review • A New Economy Focus Question: What were the main elements of the market revolution? • Market Society Focus Question: How did the market revolution spark social change? • The Free Individual Focus Question: How did the meanings of American freedom change in this period? • The Limits of Prosperity Focus Question: How did the market revolution affect the lives of workers, women, and African-Americans?
  • 68. MEDIA LINKS —— Chapter 9 —— Order Title Filename Media link 1 Eric Foner on the market revolution, pt 2 question055 http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/? p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question055 2 Eric Foner on the cotton kingdom cotton_kingdom http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/? p=/college/history/foner4/&f=cotton_kingdom 3 Eric Foner on westward expansion in the 19th century question057 http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/? p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question057 4 Eric Foner on the abolitionist movement question058 http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/? p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=question058 5 Eric Foner on Mormons as an American and global phenomenon mormon_pheno menon http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/? p=/college/history/foner4/&f=mormon_phenomenon
  • 69. Next Lecture PREVIEW: —— Chapter 9 —— Democracy in America, 1815–1840 • The Triumph of Democracy • Nationalism and Its Discontents • Nation, Section, and Party • The Age of Jackson • The Bank War and After
  • 70. Norton Lecture Slides Independent and Employee-Owned http://wwnorton.com/college/history/give-me-liberty4/ by Eric Foner This concludes the Norton Lecture Slides Slide Set for Chapter 9 Give Me Liberty! AN AMERICAN HISTORY FOURTH EDITION

Editor's Notes

  1. Chapter 9The Market Revolution, 1800–1840 Americans in the first half of the nineteenth century described liberty as the defining quality of the new nation and its institutions. Americans celebrated freedom in their political speeches and writings, newspapers, and their sermons, and freedom was said to make American institutions unique. Yet, in this period, Americans’ understandings of freedom changed. The Revolution stimulated three historical processes that quickened after the War of 1812: the spread of market relations, westward migration, and the development of a robust political democracy. These forces reshaped American society and led Americans to associate freedom with economic opportunity, geographic mobility, and democratic political participation. But slavery also shaped American freedom. Slavery moved west and expanded along with a growing nation. Innovations in transportation helped spread slaves and slavery, too. And slavery created a racial boundary around American democracy that made voting, officeholding, and participation in the public sphere a privilege for whites only.
  2. The subtopics for this lecture are listed on the screen above.
  3. The purpose of the focus questions is to help students find larger themes and structures to bring the historical evidence, events, and examples together for a connected thematic purpose. As we go through each portion of this lecture, you may want to keep in mind how the information relates to this larger thematic question. Here are some suggestions: write the focus question in the left or right margin on your notes and as we go through, either mark areas of your notes for you to come back to later and think about the connection OR as you review your notes later (to fill in anything else you remember from the lecture or your thoughts during the lecture or additional information from the readings), write small phrases from the lecture and readings that connect that information to each focus question AND/OR are examples that work together to answer the focus question.
  4. In the first half of the nineteenth century, economic changes called by historians “the market revolution” transformed the United States. Innovations in transportation and communication sparked these changes. In the colonial era, technology had barely advanced—ships did not become faster, no canals were built, and manufacturing was done by hand. Roads were scarce and slow. In 1800, most farm families were not tied to the marketplace, used little cash, and produced much of what they needed at home. It was nearly impossible for farmers far from cities or waterways to get their produce to market. The first advance in overland transportation was the construction of toll roads, called turnpikes, by private companies and state and local governments. But improved water transportation more effectively sped up and lowered the costs of commerce. In 1807, on the Hudson River in New York, the first steamboat, built by Robert Fulton, went into operation. Steamboats made possible upstream navigation and rapid transport across the Great Lakes, and eventually the Atlantic Ocean. In 1825, the Erie Canal in upstate New York was completed. The canal facilitated the settlement of upstate New York and the Old Northwest, and helped foster trade between farmers in the West and manufacturers in the East. The Erie Canal also inspired a craze of canal building by state and local governments, many of which became bankrupt when the canals were unprofitable.
  5. While canals only connected existing waterways, railroads opened vast new areas of the interior, while stimulating coal mining, for fuel, and iron manufacturing, for locomotives and rail. Work on the first railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, began in 1828. By 1860, the nation’s rail network was 30,000 miles long, more than the total in the rest of the world combined. At the same time, the invention of the telegraph in the 1830s by Samuel F. B. Morse allowed for instantaneous communication. First used commercially in 1844, the telegraph served businesses and newspapers by helping speed information flow and bringing uniformity to prices.
  6. Transportation and communication improvements fostered the growth of the West as a new region. Between 1790 and 1840, around 4.5 million people crossed the Appalachian Mountains—much of it after the War of 1812, when land-hungry easterners moved west. Between 1815 and 1821, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, and Maine became states. Three different streams of settlers moved West: small farmers and planters with slaves in the South, who created the Cotton Kingdom of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas; farm families from the Upper South who moved to southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; and New Englanders who moved across New York to northern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. National boundaries did not prevent American settlement. In Florida, and later in Texas and Oregon, American settlers claimed land ruled by foreign countries (Spain, Mexico, and Britain) or Indian tribes. They were confident that American sovereignty would follow. American settlers and military incursions, some led by Andrew Jackson, led to the acquisition of Spanish Florida by 1819. By 1840, 7 million Americans—about two-fifths of the total population—lived west of the Appalachian Mountains.
  7. The market revolution and westward expansion, which occurred simultaneously in the North and South, increased divisions between these sections. Perhaps the most dynamic characteristic of America’s economy in the early nineteenth century was the birth of the Cotton Kingdom. The early industrial revolution in England was based in cotton textile factories, which demanded a huge amount of cotton. The Deep South was suited to growing cotton, and once Eli Whitney, in 1793, invented the cotton gin, which quickly separated cotton from seeds, cotton production quickened, became very profitable, and spread. Whitney’s invention, along with new western lands and factory demand for cotton, revolutionized American slavery. Once expected to die out with tobacco, slavery was expanded by cotton. When Congress outlawed the Atlantic slave trade in 1808, a massive internal trade in slaves grew in the United States, in which slaves in the older slave states of Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina were sold to the newer slave areas of the Deep South. Between 1800 and 1860, about 1 million slaves were sold and forcibly moved West in the internal slave trade. Though Jefferson imagined the West would secure the future of an American republic populated by independent small farmers, slave plantations producing cotton for export became the basis of the empire of liberty.
  8. The purpose of the focus questions is to help students find larger themes and structures to bring the historical evidence, events, and examples together for a connected thematic purpose. As we go through each portion of this lecture, you may want to keep in mind how the information relates to this larger thematic question. Here are some suggestions: write the focus question in the left or right margin on your notes and as we go through, either mark areas of your notes for you to come back to later and think about the connection OR as you review your notes later (to fill in anything else you remember from the lecture or your thoughts during the lecture or additional information from the readings), write small phrases from the lecture and readings that connect that information to each focus question AND/OR are examples that work together to answer the focus question.
  9. Even though cotton agriculture in some sense commercialized the South, it did not create a dynamic and diversified economy. Cotton plantation slavery simply spread the agrarian, slave-based social order of the eastern states westward. The Cotton Kingdom remained rural, and the South's transportation and banking systems were underdeveloped arms of the plantation economy. Manufacturing and technological development here lagged, compared to the North. In the North, the market revolution and westward expansion spurred changes that transformed the region into an integrated economy of commercial farms and manufacturing cities. Once isolated farmers, now connected to distant markets by new transportation routes and credit, sold more goods and acquired more cash, which they used to purchase more goods they once made at home. Western farmers sold their goods and found credit in growing eastern cities. Credit allowed them to purchase land, fertilizers, and new agricultural machines, such as the steel plow and the reaper, which greatly increased agricultural productivity in goods such as wheat.
  10. Cities were part of the West from its beginning. Cities that stood at the intersection of interregional trade, such as Cincinnati, a center of pig slaughterhouses, and St. Louis, grew enormously and quickly. Chicago was the West’s greatest city. Thanks to the railroad and its location on the Great Lakes, Chicago by 1860 was the fourth-largest city in the nation, serving as a center where western farm products were collected and shipped east. Urban centers in the West and East experienced great changes wrought by the market revolution. The number of people in cities increased dramatically. Urban merchants, bankers, and master craftsmen exploited the expanding market among commercial farmers. Their efforts to increase production and reduce labor costs transformed work. Skilled artisans who once made an entire product at home, where they controlled their own work, were now gathered in large workshops, where entrepreneurs supervised them, subdivided their tasks, and paid them a wage to perform only one process in production. These workers faced relentless pressure from employers to make more goods faster and at lower wages.
  11. In some industries, particularly textiles, factories entirely replaced traditional craft production. Factories gathered large groups of workers under central supervision and replaced hand tools with power-driven machinery. The first factory in America was established in 1790 at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, by Samuel Slater, an English immigrant, who built from memory a spinning-jenny in order to evade laws making it illegal to export plans for industrial machines. These early spinning factories produced yarn which, through the “outwork” system, was sent out to rural farm families, who wove it into cloth. The same outwork system characterized early shoe production, in which parts were sent out to families, who assembled them and gave them back to merchants, who finally sold the shoe. But shoemaking and textiles were eventually brought under one factory roof. The first large American factory that used power looms to weave cotton cloth was built in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1814. Beginning in the 1820s, other manufacturers established factories in Lowell and other small towns, creating small industrial towns and cities across New England. The first factories, powered by waterfalls and river rapids, were matched by the 1840s by factories using steam power, which could be located anywhere. In 1850, factories made not just textiles and shoes but a wide variety of goods, including tools, firearms, clocks, and agricultural machinery. The “American system” of manufactures relied on the mass production of interchangeable parts that could be quickly assembled into standardized finished products.
  12. The market revolution changed Americans’ sense of time. Farm life was still regulated by seasonal rhythms, while clocks in cities and factories came to sharply regulate life and distinguished work from leisure time. Artisans in traditional craft production had worked slowly and erratically, sometimes drinking or talking politics, but work in industrial factories was much longer, supervised and controlled, and drink, play, and conversation were not allowed in this highly disciplined environment. Pay for the artisan had been based on the price of his product, but the industrial worker received an hourly or daily wage. Railroads, which operated on fixed schedules, also spread “clock time.” Many Americans saw working in a factory as degrading their sense of independence, and most native-born men refused to work in them. Employers thus turned to women and immigrants for labor. Most early New England factories first used female and child labor. In Lowell, the most well-known center of early textile manufacturing, employers built an entire town with churches, lecture halls, and boarding halls, allowing farm families to send their daughters to a moral mill village in good conscience. This was the first time that women were sent into the public world in large numbers. But these “mill girls” were a transient labor force, since most sought to marry after only a few years of factory work. They were replaced by immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s.
  13. Economic growth fueled a demand for labor, which was partly filled by immigrants. Immigration swelled between 1840 and 1860, when over 4 million people came to the United States, mostly from Ireland and Germany. Modernization of agriculture, the industrial revolution, and steamship and rail transportation spurred many of these migrants to America. Most went to the North, where jobs were plenty and slaves were few and would not compete with them. Very few immigrants went to southern states, except for peripheral cities such as New Orleans, St. Louis, or Baltimore. Immigrants in northern cities and rural areas were quite visible. America offered political and religious freedom to Europeans living under repressive governments and rigid social hierarchies. But the largest number of immigrants fled catastrophe—the Irish men and women who escaped from the Great Famine of 1845–1851, when a potato blight starved 1 million Irish to death and caused another million to migrate, mostly to America. These migrants, mostly having worked in agricultural labor, moved into unskilled or low-skilled jobs—men into common labor, rail and canal construction, longshore and factory work, and women into domestic service. The Germans were the second-largest group of immigrants. They had more skilled workers, tended to be artisans, craftsmen, and shopkeepers, and formed tight-knit immigrant communities in the East and West.
  14. While English immigrants were easily absorbed in American culture, the Irish faced bitter hostility. They were Roman Catholics in a mostly Protestant society with deep anti-Catholic traditions, and they increased the visibility and power of the Catholic Church. Irish immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s alarmed many native-born Americans, and “nativists,” who feared the impact of immigration on American political and social life, blamed immigrants for crime, political corruption, heavy drinking, and job competition that undercut wages for native-born skilled workers. The Irish were rapidly integrated into the Democratic Party’s urban political machines, which dispensed jobs and poor relief to immigrants. Nativists believed the Irish in particular were a lazy, childlike, and irrational people unfamiliar with American ideas of liberty and subservient to the Catholic Church, thus threatening democratic institutions, social reform, and public education. Riots targeted immigrants and their institutions, and nativist politicians were elected in the 1840s and 1850s.
  15. American law in this period increasingly supported the efforts of entrepreneurs to participate in the market revolution, while protecting them from local governments and liability that might interfere with their activities. The corporate form of business organization, in which a corporate firm receives a charter from the government and stockholders are not individually liable for company debts, became central to economic life in this period. Corporations found reinforcement in Supreme Court decisions that validated their legal status. Local courts found businesses blameless for property damage and held that employers had full authority in the workplace, even convicting workers who joined unions or went on strike based on old conspiracy laws.
  16. The purpose of the focus questions is to help students find larger themes and structures to bring the historical evidence, events, and examples together for a connected thematic purpose. As we go through each portion of this lecture, you may want to keep in mind how the information relates to this larger thematic question. Here are some suggestions: write the focus question in the left or right margin on your notes and as we go through, either mark areas of your notes for you to come back to later and think about the connection OR as you review your notes later (to fill in anything else you remember from the lecture or your thoughts during the lecture or additional information from the readings), write small phrases from the lecture and readings that connect that information to each focus question AND/OR are examples that work together to answer the focus question.
  17. By the 1830s and 1840s, the market revolution and westward expansion had profoundly affected all Americans’ lives, reinforcing older ideas of freedom and creating new ones. American freedom had long been linked with available land in the West. In this period was coined the phrase “manifest destiny,” referring to the divine mission of the United States to occupy all of North America and extend freedom, despite any costs to peoples and nations already there. But an old idea connecting freedom and a divine mission to move west and settle land had its origins in colonial times. In national myth and ideology, the West would long remain a sanctuary for the free American. To many, the settlement and exploitation of the West offered America a chance to avoid becoming like Europe, where society was marked by fixed social classes and large numbers of wage-earning poor. In the West, free or cheap land was abundant and factory labor less common. The West seemed to offer men facing wage labor and rising land prices in the East an opportunity to gain economic independence—the social condition of freedom.
  18. The energetic, competitive world of the market revolution led many Americans to identify freedom with the absence of restraints on self-directed individuals who sought economic advancement and personal development. Opportunities for personal growth presented a new definition of Jefferson’s pursuit of happiness that well fitted a new America in which westward expansion and market relations shattered old spatial and social boundaries. A group of New England intellectuals, called “transcendentalists,” reflected this national mood in their writings and activities. Together they insisted that individual judgment should take precedence over existing social traditions and institutions. Ralph Waldo Emerson defined freedom as an open-ended process of self-realization, in which individuals could remake themselves and their own lives. Henry David Thoreau called for individuals to rely on themselves. In this era, the term “individualism” was first used. Unlike in the colonial period, many Americans now believed individuals should pursue their own self-interest, no matter what the cost to the public good, and that they should and could depend only on themselves. Americans more and more saw the realm of the private self as one in which other individuals and government should not interfere.
  19. The popular religious revivals that swept over the nation during the Second Great Awakening added a religious dimension to the celebration of self-improvement, self-reliance, and self-determination. These revivals were first organized by established religious leaders worried about low levels of church attendance, but reached their height in the 1820s and 1830s, when the Reverend Charles Grandison Finney held revivals in New York. Like evangelists in the eighteenth century, Finney enthusiastically warned his audience of hell, and promised them salvation if they would end their sinful habits. Evangelical preachers rejected the idea that man was naturally sinful and preordained to heaven or hell, and instead argued that humans had free will to live in sin or reach heaven by doing “good works.” The Second Great Awakening democratized American Christianity and made it a mass enterprise. Religious devotion and attendance boomed, and smaller evangelical sects such as the Methodists and Baptists grew rapidly. Christianity became central to American culture. The evangelicals stressed the right of private judgment in spiritual affairs and the possibility of universal salvation through faith and good deeds. Evangelicals used the opportunities to travel and spread their message, which had been made available by the market revolution, and their mass religion and idea that ordinary Americans could forge their own spiritual destinies resonated with the spread of market values. While evangelicals criticized selfishness, greed, and indifference to the welfare of others, the revivals flourished in areas transformed by the market revolution. Evangelical ministers promoted a controlled individualism, marked by industry, sobriety, and self-discipline as the essence of freedom.
  20. One of the lasting and largest Second Great Awakening religious communities was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, whose members are most often referred to as Mormons. Joseph Smith, claiming to have found ancient tablets, which he transcribed as the Book of Mormon, founded the church in the late 1820s in upstate New York. His absolute authority over his followers and Mormons’ refusal to separate church and state alarmed many, as did their practice of polygamous marriage, in which one man could have more than one wife. The Mormons were persecuted and driven from state to state, until Mormon leader Brigham Young led more than 10,000 Mormons to the shores of Great Salt Lake in modern-day Utah. The case of the Mormons showed the limits of religious toleration in nineteenth-century America.
  21. The purpose of the focus questions is to help students find larger themes and structures to bring the historical evidence, events, and examples together for a connected thematic purpose. As we go through each portion of this lecture, you may want to keep in mind how the information relates to this larger thematic question. Here are some suggestions: write the focus question in the left or right margin on your notes and as we go through, either mark areas of your notes for you to come back to later and think about the connection OR as you review your notes later (to fill in anything else you remember from the lecture or your thoughts during the lecture or additional information from the readings), write small phrases from the lecture and readings that connect that information to each focus question AND/OR are examples that work together to answer the focus question.
  22. With the market revolution, the right to compete for economic advancement became essential to American freedom. Symbols of liberty were bound up with symbols of prosperity. The stories of men like John Jacob Astor, the son of a poor German immigrant who became the richest man in America by using money earned from shipping to invest in Manhattan real estate, seemed to embody opportunities open to the “self-made man.” This success was achieved not through hereditary privilege or government favoritism, as in Europe, but through hard work and intelligence. The market revolution and expanding commercial life enriched bankers, merchants, industrialists, and planters and produced a new middle class of clerks, accountants, and other professionals, such as teachers, doctors, and lawyers.
  23. Not everyone benefited from the market revolution. Most African-Americans were slaves, but even free blacks were excluded from economic opportunities. Free blacks in northern states experienced discrimination in every sphere of life. They were segregated into the poorest and most unhealthy areas of cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, and were subjected to assaults in riots by white mobs. They were barred from schools and other public facilities, and created their own institutional life of schools and churches, such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Many blacks experienced downward economic mobility, being unable to practice their craft skills because of discrimination by white employers and workers, and were relegated to the most unskilled and menial low-paid labor. Blacks also could not take advantage of the opening of the West, since federal law barred blacks from accessing public land, and some western states prohibited them from even entering their territory.
  24. Many opportunities created by the market revolution were also closed to women. As the household declined as a site of economic production, women’s traditional roles were undermined by mass produced goods once made at home. Some women entered factories, while others embraced a new definition of femininity centered in women’s ability to create a private sphere in the home removed from the competitive tensions of the market economy. Here, her role was not to produce things but to sustain nonmarket values such as love, friendship, and mutual obligation, providing men with a shelter from the rigors of the market. Earlier ideas of “republican motherhood” were replaced by this “cult of domesticity.” Virtue came to be defined as a personal quality associated with women, who were expected to be sexually innocent, beautiful, frail, and dependent on men. The cult of domesticity minimized even women’s indirect participation in public life, viewing women as nurturing, selfless, and ruled by emotions, while seeing men as rational, aggressive, and domineering. While men could move freely between the public and private spheres, women were to remain confined within the private family.
  25. But the cult of domesticity did not capture the realities of life for the many women who worked for wages at least part of their lives. Women who worked outside of the home could not compete freely for jobs, since only low-paying jobs were open to them, and married women could not sign their own contracts or, until after the Civil War, keep their wages, which went to their husbands. Many poor women worked as domestic servants, factory workers, and seamstresses. For the middle class, however, respectability was earned in part by keeping wives and children at home and hiring women to do household work in middle-class homes, which were segregated in neighborhoods distant from other classes. Even working-class men adopted these values and protested that capitalism was ripping women from the home and subjecting them to exploitation and abuse in the marketplace.
  26. Many Americans experienced the market revolution as a loss of freedom. The economy suffered a sharp recession in 1819, a depression starting in 1837, and several downturns in between, all of which caused high levels of unemployment and reductions in wages. While the economic transformations of the market revolution greatly expanded America’s output and trade and increased living standards, it also widened the gap in wealth and income between wealthy merchants and industrialists and workers and the poor, especially in the urban Northeast. Worried by the erosion of their traditional skills and the danger of being reduced to dependent wage earners, skilled craftsmen in the late 1820s created the world’s first Workingman’s Parties. These were short-lived political organizations that sought to mobilize lower-class support for candidates who demanded free public education, an end to imprisonment for debt, and laws limiting work to ten hours per day. In the 1830s, unions were organized and strikes were common. Wage-earners protesting social conditions and pressing for political demands invoked ideas of freedom and independence from the Revolutionary era to justify their claims. They even compared their status to slaves, using the term wage-slavery. Thus, even while the market revolution offered opportunities to many Americans, it also generated anxieties and protests that came to be reflected in politics.