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The document summarizes key events and developments during the early 19th century in the United States, including rapid population growth and westward expansion, the transportation revolution enabled by inventions like the steamboat and cotton gin, the beginning of the industrial revolution through mills like Slater Mill, and problems that arose from the new mill work including long hours and strikes by workers including women. It also briefly discusses the Second Great Awakening and its effects on the nation.
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Discussion post 1: I think that transportation was one of the greatest challenges for anyone in the
early 1800’s. If you cannot get inventory for your business or get your product to customers,
what is the sense of being in business? Steamboats were invented in the 1807, but it took several
years for them to get established. Debris and water levels in the river could cause them to
become stuck. Roads were not that great and there was always the threat of being held up. If
transporting by sea, voyages could take months. The ships could sink in a storm or pirates could
rob it.
Discussion post 2: There were a lot of different factors that could mean a challenge for a young
entrepreneur working in the United States during the Antebellum Period. The biggest hurdle
would have been amassing capital to begin a business. During the beginning of the Antebellum
Period, most capital was European. Even the United States government was using European
capital at the time. In order to get some of this capital, a young entrepreneur would have to be
able to conduct himself in a manner that would spark the interest of European investors. Later in
the period, during the Free Banking years, there were panics that would stricken the financial
markets, making it even more difficult to solidify funds for a start up entrepreneur.
Solution
1: In the early 1800s transportation was certainly one of the greatest challenge especially for
entrepreneurs. The only way for them to transport their material was with the use of natural
waterways. They also had to track through difficult mountains to transport their wares. For
example in 1805 Lewis and Clark perform their expedition by canoe down the Mussoorie river
and purchased 30 horses after trekking down the bitterroot mountains through the snow.
2. The United States experienced Industrial Revolution only in the Antebellum period. Since
many of the Financial Institutions were set up in the Northern States the southern entrepreneurs
had difficulty in obtaining capital for investment. Southern States faced greater difficulty since
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what is the sense of being in business? Steamboats were invented in the 1807, but it took several
years for them to get established. Debris and water levels in the river could cause them to
become stuck. Roads were not that great and there was always the threat of being held up. If
transporting by sea, voyages could take months. The ships could sink in a storm or pirates could
rob it.
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Chapter 9 Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
Chapter 9 | Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
243
CHAPTER 9
Industrial Transformation in the
North, 1800–1850
Figure 9.1 Five Points (1827), by George Catlin, depicts the infamous Five Points
neighborhood of New York City,
so called because it was centered at the intersection of five streets. Five Points
was home to a polyglot mix of recent
immigrants, freed slaves, and other members of the working class.
Chapter Outline
9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
9.2 A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
9.3 On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
9.4 A New Social Order: Class Divisions
Introduction
By the 1830s, the United States had developed a thriving industrial and commercial
sector in the Northeast.
Farmers embraced regional and distant markets as the primary destination for their
products. Artisans
witnessed the methodical division of the labor process in factories. Wage labor
became an increasingly
common experience. These industrial and market revolutions, combined with advances
in transportation,
transformed the economic and social landscape. Americans could now quickly produce
larger amounts of
goods for a nationwide, and sometimes an international, market and rely less on
foreign imports than in
colonial times.
As American economic life shifted rapidly and modes of production changed, new
class divisions emerged
and solidified, resulting in previously unknown economic and social inequalities.
This image of the Five
Points district in New York City captures the turbulence of the time (Figure 9.1).
Five Points began as a
settlement for freed slaves, but it soon became a crowded urban world of American
day laborers and low-
wage workers who lived a precarious existence that the economic benefits of the new
economy largely
bypassed. An influx of immigrant workers swelled and diversified an already crowded
urban population.
By the 1830s, the area had become a slum, home to widespread poverty, crime, and
disease. Advances in
industrialization and the market revolution came at a human price.
244
Chapter 9 | Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
• Explain the role of the putting-out system in the rise of
industrialization
• Understand industrialization’s impact on the nature of production and work
• Describe the effect of industrialization on consumption
• Identify the goals of workers’ organizations like the Working Men’s Party
Northern industrialization expanded rapidly following the War of 1812.
Industrialized manufacturing
began in New England, where wealthy mer ...
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Farmers embraced regional and distant markets as the primary destination for their
products. Artisans
witnessed the methodical division of the labor process in factories. Wage labor
became an increasingly
common experience. These industrial and market revolutions, combined with advances
in transportation,
transformed the economic and social landscape. Americans could now quickly produce
larger amounts of
goods for a nationwide, and sometimes an international, market and rely less on
foreign imports than in
colonial times.
As American economic life shifted rapidly and modes of production changed, new
class divisions emerged
and solidified, resulting in previously unknown economic and social inequalities.
This image of the Five
Points district in New York City captures the turbulence of the time (Figure 9.1).
Five Points began as a
settlement for freed slaves, but it soon became a crowded urban world of American
day laborers and low-
wage workers who lived a precarious existence that the economic benefits of the new
economy largely
bypassed. An influx of immigrant workers swelled and diversified an already crowded
urban population.
By the 1830s, the area had become a slum, home to widespread poverty, crime, and
disease. Advances in
industrialization and the market revolution came at a human price.
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Chapter 9 | Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
• Explain the role of the putting-out system in the rise of
industrialization
• Understand industrialization’s impact on the nature of production and work
• Describe the effect of industrialization on consumption
• Identify the goals of workers’ organizations like the Working Men’s Party
Northern industrialization expanded rapidly following the War of 1812.
Industrialized manufacturing
began in New England, where wealthy mer ...
Similar to Eep ch 7 (20)
5.balancing nationalism and sectionalism 1812 1840
5.balancing nationalism and sectionalism 1812 1840
Chapter 9 Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
Chapter 9 Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
Eep ch 7
- 1. Chapter 7- Life in the New Nation
- 2. Objectives Students should be able to: Describe the population boom and Westward movements. Identify the Industrial Revolution and its affects on the nation’s economy Explain the effects of the Second Great Awakening.
- 3. Chapter 7 Section 1-Crossing the Appalachians Massive spike in population, mainly due to larger families despite an extremely high mortality rate. America was young, people dreamed to make a good future for themselves. So, let’s move West! Most settle in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Journey was long/difficult but became easier because of the Wilderness Road. 1819-US acquires Florida through the Adams-Onis treaty, in which Spain gives up Florida. US now stretches from Atlantic to Pacific.
- 4. Chapter 7 Section 2-Inventions and Innovations Reflects the American spirit of “improvement” and the need to make a better life. Many focus on the importance of learning. A Transportation Revolution Steam Power on ships-Robert Fulton Eli Whitney-Cotton Gin Erie Canal-Trade between Atlantic Coast/Great Lakes Boom in roads and railroads
- 5. Industrial Revolution-Samuel Slater Samuel Slater, born in England, apprentices at mills as a child. Meets Moses Brown in NYC, desire to build mill in America. Slater memorizes the mills in England. Builds and opens a mill, Slater Mill, in Pawtucket in 1793. Despite dangers, Slater hires children to work.
- 6. Problems of mill life: BORING! Work from sunrise to sunset. Management controls everything. Bells control time. Emergence of women in the mill, most teenage girls (13- 15). 1824 strike-1st in country in which women participate. Negotiated. Time is managements ally, until….
- 8. Time is the Ally Now time, which was “private” is now public. The implementation of a time clock is seen as a victory for the working class. But still, workers have to play by management’s rules. Lowell Mills (1813) are in essence modeled after Slater’s yet were seen as an “upgrade” over the mill Slater had.
- 9. Homework For tomorrow, read Chapter 8 Sections 1-3 Please answer the following questions: -Page 233 # 1,2 -Page 239 # 2, 5 -Page 243 # 2, 3