Notes by: Zachary Cyrus Affrin
Chapter 10 Notes
America’s Economic Revolution
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The Changing American Population
a. Before Industrial Revolution could occur America needed a population large enough
to grow its own food and to provide a surplus workforce for the industrial economy
b. Needed transportation and communication system
c. Needed technology
d. The American Population: 1820-1840
i. Three trends in population from 1820-1840
1. Rapid population increase
2. Growth of New York City
e. Immigration and Urban Growth: 1840-1860
f. The Rise of Nativism
i. Some native-born Americans welcomed immigrants
ii. Other Americans viewed foreign population with alarm
iii. Secret Societies
Transportation, Communications, and Technology
a. The Canal Age
i. New York first to build the Eerie Canal
b. The Early Railroads
c. The Triumph of the Rails
d. Innovations in Communications and Journalism
i. Magnetic telegraph critical to railroads
Commerce and Industry
a. THE MOST PROFOUND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN MID-19THC AMERICA WAS
THE RISE OF THE FACTORY!
b. Created enormous wealth and changed the face of all areas of the nation
c. The Expansion of Business 1820-1840
d. The Emergence of The Factory
e. Advances in Technology
Men and Women at Work
a. Above all, manufacturers still relied on the supply of labor
b. Recruiting a Native Workforce
i. The Lowell System:
ii. Disadvantages and women plights in the Lowell System
iii. Decline of the Lowell System
iv. Female Labor Reform Association
c. The Immigrant Workforce
d. The Factory System & The Artisan Tradition
e. Fighting For Control
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“Free Labor”
Patterns of Industrial Society
a. The Rich and The Poor
b. Social Mobility
c. Middle-Class Life
i. Distinction of classes made by home architecture and dress
d. The Changing Family
e. Women and the “Cult of Domesticity”
f. Leisure Activities
The Agricultural North
a. The Old Northwest
b. Rural Life