1.
Canals and Steamboats: National Road was not commercially compatible. water was cheaper to use for commercial purposes and more efficient. Eerie Canal. Robert Fulton: steamboat.
2.
Catherine Beecher: wrote "Treatise on Domestic Family"
3.
Charles G. Finney: an avid reformer who started the Second Great Awakening
4.
Effects of Mills: destroyed artisanship, apprentice replaced by child labor, women and children gained power,
5.
Effects of Transportation Revolution: made distant markets available. Risk-taking mentality. Disease moved with people. Reoriented Americans away from Atlantic and toward the mainland
Pride and identity
Market grew, capitalism
6.
Factories vs. Slavery: South compared their "cradle to grave" slavery system to the North's treatment of "wage slaves"
7.
Family Limitation: fewer children, mutual birth control, women were supposed to turn OFF their husbands
8.
Fixed places in social order (agriculturally): 1. Large landowners/planters
2. Yeoman farmers
3. Tenant famers/laborers
9.
Francis Cabot Lowell: Visited England and returned to the US to open a mill in Mass. that brought spining and weaving in one building in a town named after him
10.
Interchangeable parts: American system.
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Large factories became common when?: 1880s
12.
Lowell: City north of Boston, Massachusetts, that became the largest of the mill towns in the manufacture of textiles during te American Industrial Revolution. Female laborers.
13.
Market Revolution: 3 Parts and definition: 1. Transportation
2. Commercialization
3. Industrialization
replacement of household self0sufficiency with production of goods for a cash market.
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Middle Class children: a new kind of upbringing
15.
Moses Brown: a quaker merchant who wanted to build a spinning mill in Rhode Island; he opened a mill with Slater
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New Middle Class Family: Women had new responsibilities. Make the home a refuge for husband. cooperation between husband and wife.
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Patriarchy: Man's power in society reflected in the family unit.
18.
Railroads: modernized iron industry
built around 1830
19.
Roads: National Road, 1808. Tied east and west together (crosses Appalachians).
20.
Samuel Slater: He memorized the way that the British made machines and he brought the idea to America. He made our first cotton spinning machine.
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Sentimentalism: middle class put an extraordinary importance on feeling and sincerity. Sentimentalism in womens' novels. Codes of ettiquette (funerals).
22.
the Cash Economy: barter to cash. no community ties.
23.
the Putting-out system: production of goods in private homes under the supervision of a merchant who "put out" raw materials, paid a certain sum per finished piece, and sold the completed item to a distant market. The division of labor was a new idea.
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Time, Work, and leisure: no flexibility, long time to adjust. workers viewed themselves as different than the owners.
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Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ideal reality transcends ordinary life. Thoreau. Margaret Fuller.
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transportation revolution: 1800-40. Encouraged Americans to look beyond their local communities. encouraged an enterprising, commercial spirit. Roads, railroads, water
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Womens' Labor: Unheard of but necessary.
