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THE CHANGING AMERICAN POPULATION
• The Rise of Nativism• Native American Party
• Goals/Objectives:
• Supreme Order of the Star-Spangled Banner• Goals/Objectives:
• Know-Nothing Party• Goals/Objectives:
ERAS OF TRANSPORTATION
Turnpike and River Era – 1790s to 1820sCanal Era – 1825 to 1840s
Railroad Era – 1850s to 1940sAutomobile Era – 1920s to Present
ERAS OF TRANSPORTATION
• Steamboats• Robert Fulton
• Clermont
• Impact on transportation and trade?
• Erie Canal (See previous slide)• Significance
• Cost of trade• Direction of trade• Settlement of Northwest• New York City• Upstate New York• Canal Boom
• What was the effect?
ERAS OF TRANSPORTATION
• The Early Railroads• The Triumph of the Rails
• Northeast• Sectional• Short Lines• Trunk Lines
• Railroad Investors• 30 million acres of land toward development
• Why is this important that Congress acted immediately?
ERAS OF TRANSPORTATION
• Impact of Railroads• Promoted national trade and economic growth• Linked Northeast and old Northwest for trade
• Consolidation of early short lines leads to East to West Orientation
• Chicago
• Promoted the growth of other industry• Iron• Coal• Telegraph
• Encouraged farmers to specialize• First great corporations in US – model for later businesses
AMERICA’S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION
• Innovations in Communications and Journalism• Samuel Morse
• Telegraph• Instant Communication• Created more sectional differences – but how?
• Richard Hoe• Steam Cylinder Rotary Press• News Events – Major Cities
• Major Papers• Tribune, Herald, Times
AMERICA’S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION
• Commerce and Industry• The Expansion of Business, 1820 to 1840
• Department Stores• Rise of Corporations• Investment Capital
• Barter, Cash, Credit• Gold vs. Silver• Bank Problems
AMERICA’S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION
• The Emergence of the Factory• Changing Social Structures• Transformation of the Shoe Industry• Charles Goodyear (Vulcanization)• Singer and Howe (Clothes Production)
• Why did the Factory emerge over Merchants?
AMERICA’S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION
• Men and Women at Work• Recruiting a Native Work Force
• Family at Factories• Waltham System• Lowell Towns
• The Immigrant Work Force
• The Factory System and the Artisan Tradition• Trade Unions vs. the Panic of 1837
• Fighting for Control• Express Contracts• Commonwealth v. Hunt• Child Labor Laws