Forging the National Economy

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Chapter 14

• Forging the National Economy

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Europe stretches to the Alleghenies America lies
beyond!

• Pioneer Life
• Poorly fed, ill-clad, poor housing, disease,
  depression, premature death, lonliness, madness,
  crude life
• Fur trappers in the Rockies traded Beaver pelts
  for manufactured goods once a year.
• George Caitlins Yellowstone Park

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Cities

• Urbanization
• Slums, impure water, foul sewage, rats, garbage,
  inadequate policing, high birthrate.
• Immigrants land of freedom and opportunity, low
  taxes, no compulsary military.
• Irish Immigrants Potato famine
• One fourth or 2 million died Black Forties
• Flocked to American slums and were equal in
  status to African Americans
• Biddies, Paddies, No Irish Need Apply (NINA)

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Nativisms

• Germans
• Higher social class with material goods and
  education background
• Model farms, Conestoga wagon, the Kentucky rifle,
  Christmas tree, kindergarten.
• Nativists foreignors were not as good as those
  born in the U.S.
• Outbreed, outvote, and overwhelm the native
  stock
• Order of Star-Spangled Banner developed into the
  Know-Nothing Party for secretiveness.
• Immigrants and American economy needed one
  another!

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Evolution of the Industrial Revolution and the
Factory System!

• Samuel Slater Father of the Factory System
  built the first textile machine in America
• Eli Whitney 1793 Cotton Gin
• Interchangeable parts muskets for U.S.
• Buy American Wear American
• Tariff of 1816
• Elias Howes sewing machine in 1846, later
  perfected by Singer.
• Samuel Morse telegraph linked communication
• By 1800 only 306 patents, 1850-60 28,000.

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Movement

• Lowells factory Vertical Integration
• Farmers daughters Factory Girls
• John Deere 1837 steel plow
• Cyrus McCormick 1830 Mechanical reaper five
  men working
• Turnpikes, National Road (591 miles), and Daniel
  Boones Wilderness Road
• Erie Canal 363 miles shipping prices drop
  tremendously.
• Railroads fast, cheap, reliable, easily
  controlled by rich tycoons.

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