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Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION
by
Eric Foner
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A New Economy
Market Society
The Free Individual
The Limits of Prosperity
A watercolor from 1830 depicts the Erie Canal five
years after it opened.
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A New Economy
 Focus Question:
What were the main elements of the
market revolution?
A New Economy:
Transportation
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Roads and Steamboats
The Erie Canal
Map 9.1 The Market Revolution: Roads and Canals, 1840
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An 1810 advertisement for a stagecoach route
linking Boston and Sandwich, Massachusetts
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Great Seal of Ohio
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An 1837 copy of a color drawing that accompanied
a patent application for a type of raft designed in 1818
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A view of New York City in 1849
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A New Economy:
Communication
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Railroads and the Telegraph
A New Economy: The
West
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The Rise of the West
Map 9.2 The Market Revolution: Western Settlement,
1800–1820
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Map 9.3 Travel times from New York City in 1800 and 1830
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Table 9.1 Population Growth of Selected
Western States, 1800–1850 (Excluding Indians)
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An 1827 engraving designed to show the feasibility
of railroads driven by steam-powered locomotives
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A watercolor by the artist Edwin Whitefield depicts a
squatter’s cabin in the Minnesota woods.
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A New Economy:
Cotton and Slavery
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The Cotton Kingdom
The Unfree Westward Movement
Map 9.4 The Market Revolution: the spread of cotton
cultivation, 1820–1840
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Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee
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Market Society
 Focus Question:
How did the market revolution spark
social change?
Market Society:
Farming
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Commercial Farmers
Market Society: cities
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The Growth of Cities
Map 9.5 Major Cities, 1840
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A painting of Cincinnati, self-styled Queen
City of the West, from 1835
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Market Society:
Factories
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The Factory System
Map 9.6 Cotton Mills, 1820s
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Manufacturing Workshop in
New York City
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Mill on the Brandywine, an 1830 watercolor
of a Pennsylvania paper mill
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Market Society: Labor
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The Industrial Worker
The “Mill Girls”
A broadside from 1853, illustrating the
long hours of work in the textile mills
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Women at work tending machines in the Lowell
textile mills
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Market Society:
Immigration
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The Growth of Immigration
Irish and German Newcomers
Table 9.2 Total Number of Immigrants
by Five-Year Period
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Young Women Workers from the
Amoskeag Textile Mills
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Currency issued by Bank Sanford,
Maine
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Although our image of the West emphasizes the
lone pioneer, many migrants settled in tightly knit
communities and worked cooperatively.
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Market Society:
Nativism
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The Rise of Nativism
Figure 9.1 Sources of Immigration
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Riot in Philadelphia
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Ursuline Convent in
Charlestown, Massachusetts
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Market Society:
Corporate Law
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The Transformation of Law
The Free Individual
 Focus Question:
How did the meanings of American
freedom change in this period?
The Free Individual:
manifest destiny
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The West and Freedom
The Free Individual:
Philosophy
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The Transcendentalists
Individualism
The daguerreotype, an early form of photography
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Kindred Spirits
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Title Page of Walden
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The Free Individual:
Religion
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The Second Great Awakening
The Awakening’s Impact
Religious Camp Meeting, a watercolor from the late 1830s
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Das neue Jerusalem (The New Jerusalem)
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The Free Individual:
Mormons
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The Emergence of Mormonism
Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois
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The Limits of
Prosperity
 Focus Question:
How did the market revolution affect the
lives of workers, women, and AfricanAmericans?
The Limits of
Prosperity: Market
revolution
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Liberty and Prosperity
Pat Lyon at the Forge, an 1826–1827 painting of a
prosperous blacksmith
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The Limits of
Prosperity: Racism
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Race and Opportunity
Juliann Jane Tillman, a preacher in the African
Methodist Episcopal Church
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The Limits of
Prosperity: Women’s
roles
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The Cult of Domesticity
Married
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A woman with a sewing machine, in an
undated photograph.
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The Limits of
Prosperity: Women
Workers
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Women and Work
An image from a female infant’s 1830 birth and baptismal
certificate
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The Limits of
Prosperity: Labor
unions
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The Early Labor Movement
The “Liberty of Living”
No More Grinding the Poor—But Liberty and the
Rights of Man
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The Shoemakers’ Strike in Lynn—Procession in the Midst
of a Snow-Storm, of Eight Hundred Women Operatives
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Review
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A New Economy
Focus Question: What were the main elements of the market
revolution?
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Market Society
Focus Question: How did the market revolution spark social change?
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The Free Individual
Focus Question: How did the meanings of American freedom change
in this period?
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The Limits of Prosperity
Focus Question: How did the market revolution affect the lives of
workers, women, and African-Americans?
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Eric Foner on the market
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Eric Foner on the cotton
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Eric Foner on westward
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Eric Foner on the abolitionist
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Eric Foner on Mormons as an
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Democracy in America,
1815–1840
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The Triumph of Democracy
Nationalism and Its Discontents
Nation, Section, and Party
The Age of Jackson
The Bank War and After
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