Defining the New Republic (1800-1848), part2:
Market Revolution (Ch. 14-15)
...is about exploring how changes in immigration, technology, and transportation fostered a market revolution and subsequent religious and social reforms.
What historical “lessons learned” can be drawn from the period, 1800-1848?
- - Humans need to adapt to environments has necessitated technological innovation.
- - Cultures spread through syncretism.
- - Economic conditions and religion are key components in legitimizing or undermining government.
- - Ever intensifying trade is a powerful force for social and political change.l inequality is source of conflict yet ever-present in civilizations.
Objectives:
- Explain the causes and effects of migration to and within America.
- Analyze how technological innovation impacted economics and society.
- Explain the development of different labor systems and how these have impacted workers lives.
- Explain the economic development and government responses to economic developments.
- Explain how geography and competition for resources have impacted society and politics.
- Explain how religious groups/ideas, philosophical/scientific ideas, and women’s rights/roles have impacted society and politics.
- Analyze the relationships between various ethnic, regional, social, gender groups and how they’ve impacted national identity.
- Explain how regional, ethnic, gender, and class identities changed over time.
- Explain how popular and reform movements have sought to change America.
Key Concepts:
Explain the definition, role, and significance of…
Chapter 14“Self Reliance”
Ecological imperialism
Irish
Molly Maguires
Tammany Hall
Germans
Know-Nothing Party
“Awful Disclosures”
Industrial Revolution
Samuel Slater
Cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Patent Office
Limited liability
Commonwealth v. Hunt / Factory girls
Lowell system
Cult of domesticity
McCormick reaper
Turnpike
Erie Canal
Anthracite coal mining
Railroads
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Clipper ships
Pony Express
Transportation revolution
Market revolution
China / Chapter 15
“The Age of Reason”
Second Great Awakening
Charles G. Finney
Burned-Over District
Mormons
Lyceum
American Temperance Society
Maine Law of 1851
Seneca Falls
Catherine Beecher
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Lydia Maria Child
Frederick Douglas
Richard Allen / David Walker
American Colonization Society
Utopian communities
Oneida Community
Shakers
John James Audubon
Federal Style
Greek Revival
Hudson River School
Minstrel shows
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
“The American Scholar”
Theme: 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.
Theme: 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 America’s economy, sometimes arousing hostility from native-born Americans in the process.
Theme: 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.
Theme: The spectacular religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening reversed a trend toward secular rationalism in American culture, and helped to fuel a spirit of social reform. In the process, religion was increasingly feminized, while women in turn took the lead in movements of reform, including those designed to improve their own condition.
Theme: The attempt to improve Americans faith, morals, and character affected nearly all areas of American life and culture, including education, the family, literature, and the arts, culminating in the great crusade against slavery.
Theme: Intellectual and cultural development in America was less prolific than in Europe, but they did earn some international recognition and became more distinctly American, especially after the War of 1812.