Chapter 7- Life in the New Nation

ObjectivesStudents should be able to:

Describe the population boom and Westward movements.

Identify the Industrial Revolution and its affects on the nation’s economy

Explain the effects of the Second Great Awakening.

Chapter 7 Section 1-Crossing the

Appalachians Massive spike in population, mainly due to larger families

despite an extremely high mortality rate. America was young, people dreamed to make a good future for themselves. So, let’s move West!

Most settle in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Journey was long/difficult but became easier because of the Wilderness Road.

1819-US acquires Florida through the Adams-Onis treaty, in which Spain gives up Florida. US now stretches from Atlantic to Pacific.

Chapter 7 Section 2-Inventions

and InnovationsReflects the American spirit of “improvement” and the need to make a better life. Many focus on the importance of learning.

A Transportation Revolution

Steam Power on ships-Robert Fulton

Eli Whitney-Cotton Gin

Erie Canal-Trade between Atlantic Coast/Great Lakes

Boom in roads and railroads

Industrial Revolution-Samuel

Slater Samuel Slater, born in

England, apprentices at mills as a child.

Meets Moses Brown in NYC, desire to build mill in America. Slater memorizes the mills in England.

Builds and opens a mill, Slater Mill, in Pawtucket in 1793.

Despite dangers, Slater hires children to work.

Problems of mill life: BORING!

Work from sunrise to sunset. Management controls everything. Bells control time.

Emergence of women in the mill, most teenage girls (13-15).

1824 strike-1st in country in which women participate. Negotiated.

Time is managements ally, until….

Time is the Ally Now time, which was “private” is now public.

The implementation of a time clock is seen as a victory for the working class. But still, workers have to play by management’s rules.

Lowell Mills (1813) are in essence modeled after Slater’s yet were seen as an “upgrade” over the mill Slater had.

Homework For tomorrow, read Chapter 8 Sections 1-3

Please answer the following questions:

-Page 233 # 1,2

-Page 239 # 2, 5

-Page 243 # 2, 3