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Emergence of America’s Market Economy
Presentation created by Robert MartinezPrimary Content Source: The New Nation by Joy HakimImages as cited.
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Back in colonial times. Americans raised most of the food they ate and made most of what they wore. They spun their own yarn,
wove their own cloth, and stitched their own clothes.
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They dipped candles and built tables and chairs. Wealthy colonists who wanted
fancy dishes, fine cloth, elegant furniture, or handsome books sent to England for
them.
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Most manufactured goods were made in England, raw materials came from the
colonies.
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It was a system that worked well. America provided lumber, pitch, tobacco, cotton,
and grains. England took those raw materials and turned them into usable products that could be sold around the
world.
Drying Tobacco Leaves
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During the American Revolution the system stopped. Suddenly there was no
place to send raw materials and no supply of fine goods. What did the colonists do?
They used their heads.
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They looked for new markets for their raw materials. Their ships sailed to faraway places: to Spain, to China, to India, to
Turkey.
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After the war the new United States began trading with England again. But American
society was changing. We were now a democracy with a strong and growing
middle class.
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It wasn’t only the very rich who wanted to buy things. Ordinary people wanted them, too. In England something was happening
that could make that possible. That something was an “industrial revolution.”
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An industrial revolution was a new system of organizing work, based on new ideas in
science and technology and business. Things once made at home were being made faster, and sometimes better, in
factories.
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Tasks were divided in new ways. People began working in teams, and that was
much more productive than working alone. It was machinery that made it all possible.
Americans wanted some of those machines.
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The English weren’t about to share their new knowledge. They wanted to keep the
Industrial Revolution in England. They wouldn’t let anyone who worked in a
cotton factory leave England.
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Samuel Slater, a young apprentice in a cotton factory in England had a remarkable
memory. He memorized the way the machines were built. Then he ran off to
London.
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In London he pretended to be a farm worker. He didn’t tell anyone he had
worked in a cotton mill. It was 1790 when he sailed for America. He brought the key
to the Industrial Revolution with him.
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Slater built a small factory next to a waterfall in the Blackstone River at
Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Waterpower turned the machines that spun cotton
fibers into yarn.
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Soon there were spinning mills besides many New England streams. Now that factories could turn cotton into yarn- quickly and easily- you can see there
would be a great demand for raw cotton.
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Anyone who could grow cotton would make a lot of money. Cotton grew very well
in the southern states.
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The cotton that grew in the coastal region was easy to use. It was called “long-staple cotton” and it had seeds that fell right off the cotton bolls. But the tidewater coastal
lands were in poor shape. There wasn’t much good land left.
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People didn’t practice scientific farming. They often destroyed land by growing the
same crops year after year. Then, when the land was no longer productive, they moved
on.
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Short-staple cotton was the only cotton that would grow inland. However, short-staple cotton has lots of dark seeds, and
those seeds stick to the cotton bolls.
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You can’t spin cotton that is full of black seeds. It took a worker all day to remove
the seeds from just one pound of cotton. If only there were an easy way to get rid of
those seeds…
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Eli Whitney heard all about that problem when he came to Savannah, Georgia, to take a job as a teacher. Whitney had just graduated from Yale College. It took him very little time to come up with a simple
machine that removed seeds from cotton.
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He called it a “cotton engine” – the name was soon shortened to cotton gin. Instead of taking all day to remove seeds from a
pound of cotton, a worker with a cotton gin could clean 50 pounds of cotton in a day, and clean it better than he ever could by
hand.
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The invention of the cotton gin, in 1793, did something that no one expected. It
encouraged slavery.
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If you could grow a lot of cotton you could get rich. So Southerners looked for land to
grow cotton and workers to plant and harvest it. Slaves became a valuable part of
their operation.
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Whitney didn’t mean it, but his invention helped turn the American South into a
slave empire. It made the South into a land of cotton. It kept it rural.
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At the same time, the North was becoming urban and industrial. It began in earnest after 1810, when a Boston businessman
named Francis Cabot Lowell took a trip to view textile factories in England.
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When he came home to America he built a factory that was even better than those in
England. Lowell’s factory had machines for both spinning and weaving. He took cotton fibers and turned them into finished cloth,
all in the same building.
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Once you get started with machines and technology, one invention seems to lead to another. There were big advantages to the
system, but disadvantages, too.
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Factory goods cost much less than handcrafted goods. That meant that
ordinary people could afford things they never been able to buy before. That made
life better for most people. But not for everyone.
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Work in the factories was mind-dulling. Workers did the same task, over and over. The air in the cotton mills was full of tiny, almost invisible cotton fibers that got into your lungs (and sometimes led to cancer.)
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Some of the workers in the factories were children. Some were as young as seven
years of age. Children often worked 10 or more hours a day.
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Those new spinning machines and looms were big and powerful and had no safety devices. If a worker’s hand slipped, she
might lose it.
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Francis Lowell hired young farm women for his factory. Lowell housed them in
dormitories and saw that they lived well and got fair salaries.
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But other factory owners took advantage of workers, especially women and children.
They paid them poorly and made them work long hours.
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The factory workers were taking part in two revolutions. The first was the Industrial Revolution. The second was a market
revolution. That means the U.S. was going from a farm economy to a market economy.
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A market economy is based on jobs and money, where people earned wages and
bought goods in markets and stores.
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