Market Revolution
Causes
Agriculture
Industries
Transportations
The Cumberland Road: Transport raw materials and commodities from Maryland to Illinois.
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.
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
Slow spread of technology
Embargo Act of 1807 and War of 1812
Self-industrialisation, self-sufficient manufacturing
Assembly Line/Mass Production :
Helped North build more weapons (used later in Civil War)
Singer and Howe's sewing machine
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
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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