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Chapter 9 The Market Revolution, 1800-1840 Chapter Study Outline. Introduction: The Marquis de Lafayette. A New Economy.
Roads and Steamboats. Improvements in transportation lowered costs and linked farmers to markets. Improved water transportation most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce. The Erie Canal. The canal was completed in 1825 and made New York City a major trade port. The state-funded canal typified funding for internal improvements.
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Railroads and the Telegraph. Railroads opened the frontier to settlement and linked markets. The telegraph introduced a communication revolution.
The Rise of the West. Improvements in transportation and communication made possible the rise of the West as a powerful, self-conscious region of the new nation. People traveled in groups and cooperated with each other to clear land, build houses and barns, and establish communities. Squatters set up farms on unoccupied land. Many Americans settled without regard to national boundaries.
Florida. The Cotton Kingdom. The market revolution and westward expansion heightened the nation's sectional divisions. The rise of cotton production came with Eli Whitney's cotton gin.
The cotton gin revolutionized American slavery. Slave trading became a well-organized business. Slave coffles. Historians estimate that around 1 million slaves were shifted from the older slave states to the Deep South between 1800 and 1860. Market Society.
Commercial Farmers. The Northwest became a region with an integrated economy of commercial farms and manufacturing cities. Farmers grew crops and raised livestock for sale. The East provided a source of credit and a market. John Deere's steel plow made possible the rapid subduing of the western prairies. The Growth of Cities.
Cities formed part of the western frontier. Cincinnati. Chicago. The nature of work shifted from that of the skilled artisan to that of the factory worker. The Factory System.
Samuel Slater established America's first factory in 1790. It was based on an outwork system. The first large-scale American factory was constructed in 1814 at Waltham, Massachusetts.
Lowell. The American System of manufactures relied on the mass production of interchangeable parts that could be rapidly assembled into standardized, finished products. The 'Mill Girls'. Early New England textile mills largely relied on female labor.
The Growth of Immigration. Economic expansion fueled a demand for labor, which was met, in part, by increased immigration from abroad. Ireland and Germany. Many settled in the northern states.
Numerous factors inspired this massive flow of population across the Atlantic. European economic conditions.
Introduction of the ocean-going steamship. American religious and political freedoms also attracted many Europeans fleeing from the failed revolutions of 1848. The Irish were refugees from disaster, fleeing the Irish potato famine. They filled many low-wage unskilled jobs in America. German immigrants included a considerably larger number of skilled craftsmen as compared to Irish immigrants. Many Germans established themselves in the West, including Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Milwaukee or the 'German Triangle.'
. The Rise of Nativism. The influx of Irish during the 1840s and 1850s led to violent anti-immigrant backlash in New York City and Philadelphia. Those who feared the impact of immigration on American political and social life were called 'nativists.' They blamed immigrants for:. Urban crime. Political corruption.
Alcohol abuses. Undercutting wages. The Transformation of Law. The corporate form of business organization became central to the new market economy. Many Americans distrusted corporate charters as a form of government-granted special privilege. The Supreme Court ruled on many aspects of corporations and employer/employee rights.
The Free Individual. The West and Freedom.
American freedom had long been linked to the availability of land in the West. Manifest Destiny.
In national myth and ideology the West would long remain 'the last home of the freeborn American.' . The West was vital for economic independence, the social condition of freedom.
The Transcendentalists. Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that freedom was an open-ended process of self-realization by which individuals could remake themselves and their own lives. Henry David Thoreau worried that the market revolution actually stifled individual judgment; genuine freedom lay within the individual.
Walden. The Second Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening added a religious underpinning to the celebration of personal self-improvement, self-reliance, and self-determination. The Reverend Charles Grandison Finney became a national celebrity for his preaching in upstate New York. The Second Great Awakening democratized American Christianity. Proliferation of ministers.
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Evangelical denominations (e.g., Methodists and Baptists) grew tremendously. The Awakening's Impact. Promoted the doctrine of human free will. Revivalist ministers seized the opportunities offered by the market revolution to spread their message.
The Limits of Prosperity. Liberty and Prosperity. Opportunities for the 'self-made man' abounded. The market revolution produced a new middle class. Race and Opportunity. Free blacks were excluded from the new economic opportunities. Barred from schools and other public facilities, free blacks laboriously constructed their own institutional life.
African Methodist Episcopal Church. Free blacks were confined to the lowest ranks of the labor market. Free blacks were not allowed access to public land in the West. The Cult of Domesticity. A new definition of femininity emerged based on values like love, friendship, and mutual obligation.
Women were to find freedom in fulfilling their duties within their sphere. Women and Work. Only low-paying jobs were available to women. Domestic servants, factory workers, and seamstresses. Not working outside the home became a badge of respectability for women. Freedom was freedom from labor. Although middle-class women did not work outside the home, they did much work as wives and mothers.
The Early Labor Movement. Some felt the market revolution reduced their freedom. Economic swings widened the gap between classes. The first Workingman's Parties were established in the 1820s. By the 1830s, strikes had become commonplace.
The 'Liberty of Living'. Wage workers evoked 'liberty' when calling for improvements in the workplace. Some described wage labor as the very essence of slavery. Economic security formed an essential part of American freedom.