Unfinished Legacies

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Unfinished Legacies

• Yankee Doodle Johnny Reb Go Manufacturing
  Farming Off Toward War

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Deal with the Large While It Is Still Small
old proverb

• Two Separate Nations
• Federal vs. states rights
• Agrarian slavery vs. urban mercantilism
• Industrial revolution hits U.S.
• Immigration to North
• Periodic depressions
• Foreigners on continent vs. American rights
• Manifest Destiny (and slavery) on the march
• Gold discovery in CA
• New literary culture vs. American pragmatism

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The Modern, Practical North

• Eli Terrys mass-produced clocks
• 1800 1 of 10 Americans owned clock
• 1850 over 9 in 10 did
• 4000 interchangeable wooden parts
• Time is money
• Standardized divisions of labor, school, etc.
• Replaces old agricultural time
• McCormick reapers
• Steam power
• magnetic telegraph

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Eli Whitneys patent (1794)

• Eli Whitney, Yale law student
• His (?) cotton engine
• Federal patent law
• 1850 US grows ¾ of worlds cotton
• Makes 2/3 of US exports
• Tobacco prices fall
• Increases need for slaves, price of land
• 1860 1 of 3 southerners a slave
• Immigrants settle North, where they find 72 of
  US manufacturing

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Remember the Alamo!!!
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Not by conquest, thank God!

• Americas most naked war of territorial
  aggression Ken Davies
• The determination of our slaveholding President
  . . . is evident . . . none seem willing to take
  their stand for peace at all risks Frederick
  Douglass, in his North Star
• Heroes, anthems, political candidates
• Also good training for Civil War generals
• Completes destiny why we are here
• Why who is here?
• The Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
• Germany offers Mexico chance to get it back!