Alan Brinkley,
AMERICAN HISTORY 12/e
Chapter Ten:
America’s Economic
Revolution
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Alan Brinkley,
AMERICAN HISTORY 12/e
Chapter Eleven:
Cotton, Slavery, and
the Old South
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Chapter Ten:
America’s Economic Revolution

The Changing American Population
– Immigration and Urban Growth, 1840-1860
 Rapid Urbanization
American Population Density, 1820
American Population Density, 1860
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Chapter Ten:
America’s Economic Revolution

Transportations, Communications, and
Technology
– The Canal Age
 Steamboats
 Economic
Advantages
of Canals
 The Erie Canal
Canals in the NE,
1823-1860
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Chapter Ten:
America’s Economic Revolution

Transportations, Communications, and
Technology
– The Triumph
of the Rails
 Consolidation
Railroad Growth,
1850-1860
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Chapter Ten:
America’s Economic Revolution

Transportations, Communications, and
Technology
– Innovations in Communications
and Journalism
 The Telegraph
 The Associated Press
 Fueling Sectional Discord
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Chapter Ten:
America’s Economic Revolution

Commerce and Industry
– The Emergence of the Factory
 Transformation of the Shoe Industry
 The Industrial Northeast
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Chapter Eleven:
Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

The Cotton Economy
– The Rise of King Cotton
 Decline of the
Tobacco Economy
 Short-Staple Cotton
 Spread of Cotton
Production
Slavery and Cotton in the
South, 1820 & 1860
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Chapter Eleven:
Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

The Cotton Economy
– The Rise of King Cotton
 Decline of the Tobacco Economy
 Short-Staple Cotton
 Spread of Cotton
Production
 Expansion of Slavery
Cotton Gin in Use
(Library of Congress)
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Chapter Eleven:
Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

The Cotton Economy
– Sources of Southern Difference
 Reasons for Colonial Dependency
Plantations In
Louisiana, 1858
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Chapter Eleven:
Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

The Cotton Economy
– Sources of Southern Difference
 Reasons for Colonial Dependency
 The Cavalier Image
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Chapter Ten:
America’s Economic Revolution

Men and Women at Work
– Recruiting a Native Work Force
 Transformation of American Agriculture
 The Lowell
System
Lowell, Massachusetts,
1832
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Chapter Ten:
America’s Economic Revolution

Patterns of Industrial Society
– The Rich and the Poor
 Increasing Inequality in Wealth
 The Urban Poor
 African-American Poverty
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Chapter Ten:
America’s Economic Revolution

Patterns of Industrial Society
– Social Mobility
 Social Mobility
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Chapter Ten:
America’s Economic Revolution

Patterns of Industrial Society
– Middle-Class Life
 Rapidly Expanding Middle Class
 New Household Inventions
 Growing Class Distinctions
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Chapter Ten:
America’s Economic Revolution

Patterns of Industrial Society
– Women and the “Cult of Domesticity”
 Female Education
 New Roles for Women
 Women’s Separate Sphere
 Benefits and Costs
 Working Class Women
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Chapter Ten:
America’s Economic Revolution

Patterns of Industrial Society
– Leisure Activities
 Minstrel Shows
 P.T. Barnum
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Chapter Ten:
America’s Economic Revolution

The Agricultural North
– The Old Northwest
 Industrialization in the Old Northwest
 Agricultural Specialization
 Growing Ties between Northeast and Northwest
 New Agricultural Techniques
 Deere Plow and McCormick Reaper
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Chapter Eleven:
Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

White Society in the South
– The Planter Class
 Planter Aristocracy
 Plantation
Management
A Georgia
Plantation
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Chapter Eleven:
Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

White Society in the South
– The “Southern Lady”
 Subordinate Status of Women
 Other Burdens
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Chapter Eleven:
Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

White Society in the South
– The Plain Folk
 Limited Educational Opportunities
 Hill People
 Close Relations with the Plantation Aristocracy
 Commitment to Paternalism
 Limited Class Conflict
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Chapter Eleven:
Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Slavery: The “Peculiar Institution”
– Varieties of Slavery
 Legal Basis of Slavery
 Reality of Slavery
 Task and Gang Systems
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Chapter Eleven:
Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Slavery: The “Peculiar Institution”
– Life Under Slavery
 High Slave Mortality Rates
 House Slaves
 Sexual Abuse
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Chapter Eleven:
Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Slavery: The “Peculiar Institution”
– The Slave Trade
 Slave Markets
The Business of Slavery
(Library of Congress)
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Chapter Eleven:
Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

The Culture of Slavery
– African-American Religion
 Slave Religion
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Chapter Eleven:
Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

The Culture of Slavery
– The Slave Family
 Slave Marriages
 Importance of Kinship Networks
 Paternal Nature of Slavery
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