America’s HistorySixth Edition

CHAPTER 9

Economic Transformation1820–1860

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Henretta • Brody • Dumenil

The American Industrial Revolution• The Division of Labor and the Factory• The Textile Industry and British Competition• American Mechanics and Technological

Innovation• Wageworkers and the Labor Movement

The Market Revolution• The Transportation Revolution Forges Regional

Ties• The Growth of Cities and Towns

Changes in the Social Structure• The Business Elite• The Middle Class• Urban Workers and the Poor• The Benevolent Empire• Charles Grandison Finney: Revivalism and Reform• Immigration and Cultural Conflict

Chapter 9 Economic Transformation, 1820–1860

• Map 9.1 New England’s Dominance in Cotton Spinning, 1840 (p. 276)

• Map 9.2 Western Land Sales, 1830–1839 and 1850–1862 (p. 281)

• Map 9.3 The Transportation Revolution: Roads and Canals, 1820–1850 (p. 284)

• Map 9.4 The Railroads of the North and South, 1850 and 1861 (p. 285)

• Map 9.5 The Nation’s Major Cities, 1840 (p. 287)

• Technology Celebrated (p. 270)

• Wheat Farming at Bishop Hill, Illinois (p. 275)

• Diagram of McCormick's Reaper from The Cultivator, May 1846 (p. 275)

• Woodworker, c. 1850 (p. 279)