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Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 12/e

Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 12/e. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution. The Changing American Population Immigration and Urban Growth, 1840-1860 Rapid Urbanization. American Population Density, 1820. American Population Density, 1860.

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Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 12/e

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  1. Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 12/e Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution

  2. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution • The Changing American Population • Immigration and Urban Growth, 1840-1860 • Rapid Urbanization American Population Density, 1820 American Population Density, 1860

  3. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution • Transportations, Communications, and Technology • The Canal Age • Steamboats • Economic Advantages of Canals • The Erie Canal Canals in the NE, 1823-1860

  4. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution • Transportations, Communications, and Technology • The Triumph of the Rails • Consolidation Railroad Growth, 1850-1860

  5. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution • Transportations, Communications, and Technology • Innovations in Communications and Journalism • The Telegraph • The Associated Press • Fueling Sectional Discord

  6. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution • Commerce and Industry • The Emergence of the Factory • Transformation of the Shoe Industry • The Industrial Northeast

  7. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution • Men and Women at Work • Recruiting a Native Work Force • Transformation of American Agriculture • The Lowell System Lowell, Massachusetts, 1832

  8. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution • Patterns of Industrial Society • The Rich and the Poor • Increasing Inequality in Wealth • The Urban Poor • African-American Poverty

  9. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution • Patterns of Industrial Society • Social Mobility • Social Mobility

  10. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution • Patterns of Industrial Society • Middle-Class Life • Rapidly Expanding Middle Class • New Household Inventions • Growing Class Distinctions

  11. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution • Patterns of Industrial Society • Women and the “Cult of Domesticity” • Female Education • New Roles for Women • Women’s Separate Sphere • Benefits and Costs • Working Class Women

  12. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution • Patterns of Industrial Society • Leisure Activities • Minstrel Shows • P.T. Barnum

  13. Chapter Ten: America’s Economic Revolution • The Agricultural North • The Old Northwest • Industrialization in the Old Northwest • Agricultural Specialization • Growing Ties between Northeast and Northwest • New Agricultural Techniques • Deere Plow and McCormick Reaper

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