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Impact of Westward Expansion. CPUSH 2012-2013. How Americans Viewed Expansion. Agreed on Need for expansion. Disagreed on Government policies 1- about cheap land 2- tariffs to support industry 3- expansion of slavery. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Impact of Westward Expansion
CPUSH 2012-2013
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How Americans Viewed Expansion
• Agreed on• Need for expansion
• Disagreed on• Government policies 1- about cheap land 2- tariffs to support industry 3- expansion of slavery
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http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=123418&title=Expansion_of_the_United_States_Map_1763___PresentSlide 12
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1-TRANSPORTATIONREVOLUTION
& THE CREATION OF A NATIONAL MARKET ECONOMY
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Eras of Transportation
• Turnpike & River Era 1790s-1820s• Canal Era 1825-1840s• Railroad Era 1850s-1940s• Automobile Era 1920s-present
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First National Road
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TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION
•Steamboats Robert Fulton Clermont (1807)
•Impact on transportation and trade – allowed merchandise and people to move more easily inland – encouraged settlement further west
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TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION
Erie Canal (1825)Significance - affected
Cost of tradeDirection of tradeSettlement of NWNew York CityUpstate NYCanal boom
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TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTIONPrincipal Canals in 1840
Roads and Canals, 1820-1850
• Canal boom• Effect on transportation and trade patterns
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TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION
• Railroads • Baltimore & Ohio
RR (1830)
• short lines• trunk lines
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2- National Market
Economy:
Inland Freight Rates, 1790-1865
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National Market Economy:
The Speed of News in 1817
and 1841
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3- BEGINNINGS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
Factory System developed Rise of Corporations Technological Innovations Labor – need workers for jobs Old Northwest – new market for goods
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Industrial Revolution The American Industrial Revolution
occurred between 1790 and 1860. It began in England in the 18th century and spread to the United States.
Cotton gin National road Canals Steam boats Railroads Why we were these inventions so
important.
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BEGINNINGS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
• textiles• Samuel Slater • factory system
Samuel Slater(“Father of the Factory System”)
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BEGINNINGS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION• Lowell (or Waltham) Factory System
– Francis Cabot Lowell– First dual-purpose textile plants– employees – first to produce cloth
• Lowell towns
Lowell, Mass. in 1850
New England Textile Centers: 1830s
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The Growth of Cotton Textile Manufacturing, 1810–1840
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4. INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
Americans were willing to try anything. They were first copiers, then innovators.•Patents Approved:•1800: 41 •1860: 4,357
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(Actually invented by a
slave)
Eli Whitney: The Cotton Gin, 1791
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Cyrus McCormick& the Mechanical Reaper
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CHANGES TO SOCIETY
The market economy changed:• class structure• The nature and location of work• Gender roles (Middle class) • the standard of living
Social Class structure• Working class• Rise of the middle class• Social mobility?• Geographic mobility
LOWER
WORKING
MIDDLE
UPPER
Where do Farmers fit?
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POPULATION GROWTH• 1775 2.5 Million• 1790 4 Million• 1820 10 Million• 1840 17 Million• 1860 32 Million
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Immigration
Major immigrant groups • Irish • Germans • English
When did they come?Where did they settle?
National Origin of Immigrants:1820 - 1860
Immigration to the United States, 1820-1860