CHAPTER 14 Forging the National Economy, 17901860

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CHAPTER 14Forging the National Economy, 17901860

• APUSH 2009-2010
• Themes with Class Contributions
• Guest facilitator / imparter of knowledge and
  analysis

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Theme 1

• The importance of the West grew in the early
  nineteenth century. Cheap land attracted
  immigrants and natives alike, and, after some
  technological innovations, the West became an
  agricultural giant. The increased output also
  spurred transportation developments to tie this
  developing region to the rest of the United
  States.

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Inventions

• Agricultural Innovation
• Cyrus McCormick, John Deere
• Communication and Transportation Innovation
• Samuel F. B. Morse
• Lancaster Turnpike
• Pony Express
• Erie Canal

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• Transportation revolutions effect on the Western
  Frontier the landscape, the people, the American
  Indians
• General Overall Effect on the West Discuss!!!

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The Wildness of the West

• George Caitlin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James
  Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville
• How did they portray the West? Discuss!!!

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Theme 2

• In the era of Jacksonian democracy, the American
  population grew rapidly and changed in character.
  More people lived in the raw West and in the
  expanding cities, and immigrant groups like the
  Irish and Germans added their labor power to
  Americas economy, sometimes arousing hostility
  from native-born Americans in the process.

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New Immigrants

• Black Forties (Irish)
• Forty-Eighters (Germans)
• Immigrants effect on America as a WHOLE and on
  the WEST - discuss

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Response from American-born citizens (Nativists)

• Nativism
• Watch this trailer for Gangs of New York
  Nativists vs. Irish Immigrants
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vwcty-Vw77R8

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Theme 3

• In the early nineteenth century, the American
  economy developed the beginnings of
  industrialization. The greatest advances occurred
  in transportation, as canals and railroads bound
  the Union together into a continental economy
  with strong regional specialization.

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Industrial Revolution

• Samuel Slater
• Eli Whitney
• King Cotton
• Elias Howe
• Isaac Singer

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• wage slaves
• trade unions
• factory girls
• cult of domesticity
• How are the north and south and west connected
  together because of innovations? - discuss

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Transportation Revolution

• Lancaster Turnpike, Erie Canal,
• Clermont and Robert Fulton
• Order of the Star Clipper Ships

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• Impact of Railroads on the West?
• Impact of faster shipping on the West and
  expansion?

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Market Revolution

• Interchangeable parts and mass production and the
  changes in manufacturing
• Transportation revolution and changes in volume
  of production / expanded market for production
• Industrial revolution and changes in the economy

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• Impact on the growth in the West? South? North?
• DISCUSS!!! DISCUSS!!! DISCUSS!!
• Miss me yet? We will sum-up quickly tomorrow and
  look at your tests and DBQs from last week!