Market Revolution

Causes

Agriculture

Industries

Transportations

The Cumberland Road: Transport raw materials and commodities from Maryland to Illinois. image

Erie Canal: Connected Western farms to Eastern manufacturing (Hudson River to Great Lakes)

Steamboat: Goods delivered downstream, while raw materials delivered upstream. Made trade easy and fast.

Effects

Railroad: Replaced canals for linking regions, trading, manufacturing, no worries for weather. State governments helped expand the railroad using loans and land.

Eli Whitney's Interchangeable Guns: Easier for people that aren't skilled to make things such as guns. Also applied to any other interchangeable parts produced and used in America

Commercial farming: Cash crops (like cotton) produced quicker through inventions like the cotton gin

The Cotton Gin: Making it easier for farmers to pick cotton. Able to produce more cotton than before and earn more money.

Westward Movement: Americans expanding to the west and using its resources

Women: Since textile cotton was in high demand, women were the workers in these factories due to their experiences and domesticity. textile

Industrialisation

Minority: Jeffersonian small household farmers
Majority: Wage Labour

Women

Worked in factories for 5 days a week for meager wages for 12-13 hours a day

Lowell Factory: staffed by former New England farm girls who worked closely supervised bosses who controlled every aspect of their lives

Cult of Domesticity

Migration

Nativism

Living Situations: Crowded, Poor ventilation, Lack of sanitary, High crime, Disease, Situated in high capacity buildings, Brought culture with them

Others wanted to settle on some land out west of the Appalachians and developed communities along the Ohio and Mississippi River

Many settled on the Eastern Seaboard and worked as industrial cheap labor

Jews established synagogues and Catholics established churches

Population Increase:
1820's: 150,000 1830's: 600,000 1840's: 1.7 mil

Emerging Social Classes/Social Norms

Middle class

Separation of public and private spheres ONLY ONE gender is assigned to each to hold

Prevalence of education and alcoholism

Leisure Activities

Businessmen, Shopkeepers, Journalists, and Doctors

More canals built

Ecological Imperialism

Kentucky Bluegrass for pasture land

Tobacco exhausted land easily

Endangered buffalos and beavers

Reasons to Migrate: no aristocracy, no forced religion, no forced military drafting, democracy, economic opportunities

Push factor of German immigration = Crop failures, political instability

Push factor of Irish immigration = Irish Potato Famine led to hunger and starvation

Eastern states like New York and Boston, worked canals/railroads, later law enforcement, Heavily implanted Catholicism in USA -> banned from factories

anti-slavery, pro-democracy, money to expand west, beer popularity, scattered

Anti-Catholicism schools, books, riots (Protestant Americans)

Flourished in the 1830s and 1840s

Families rooted from America

Anti-Catholics and anti-Semitics

Supported deportation of immigrants

Politics with Britain

Britain hiding secrets of technology and wars 1750s

Samuel Slater's factory system image

Slow spread of technology

Embargo Act of 1807 and War of 1812

Self-industrialisation, self-sufficient manufacturing

Assembly Line/Mass Production : mass produce

Helped North build more weapons (used later in Civil War)

Singer and Howe's sewing machine image

Samuel Morse's Telegraph

Helps North in Civil War

Lack of protection for labour unions and children in factories

Catherine Beecher - teaching

Republican Motherhood

McCormick Reaper

Steel Plow image

War of 1812 and Clay's American system is not supported

More financial investment in companies

No more John Marshall court

New court = community rights more valued and increased competition/investments

Charles River Bridge vs Warren Bridge

Unity

West provided food (grain and livestock) for Northern factory workers and Europe
South provided cotton for Northern factories (New England and Britain)
East provided machinery and textiles for the Southern cotton and Western agriculture

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