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Title: Unfinished Legacies


1
Unfinished Legacies
  • Yankee Doodle Johnny Reb Go Manufacturing
    Farming Off Toward War

2
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

3
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

4
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

5
Remember the Alamo!!!
6
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!
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