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Impact of Westward Expansion

Impact of Westward Expansion. CPUSH 2012-2013. How Americans Viewed Expansion. Agreed on Need for expansion. Disagreed on Government policies 1- about cheap land 2- tariffs to support industry 3- expansion of slavery.

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Impact of Westward Expansion

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  1. Impact of Westward Expansion CPUSH 2012-2013

  2. How Americans Viewed Expansion • Agreed on • Need for expansion • Disagreed on • Government policies 1- about cheap land 2- tariffs to support industry 3- expansion of slavery

  3. http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=123418&title=Expansion_of_the_United_States_Map_1763___PresentSlide 12

  4. 1-TRANSPORTATIONREVOLUTION & THE CREATION OF A NATIONAL MARKET ECONOMY

  5. Eras of Transportation • Turnpike& RiverEra 1790s-1820s • Canal Era 1825-1840s • Railroad Era 1850s-1940s • Automobile Era 1920s-present

  6. First National Road

  7. TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION • Steamboats • Robert Fulton • Clermont (1807) • Impact on • transportation • and trade – allowed • merchandise and • people to move more easily inland – encouraged settlement further west

  8. TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION • Erie Canal (1825) • Significance - affected • Cost of trade • Direction of trade • Settlement of NW • New York City • Upstate NY • Canal boom

  9. TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION Principal Canals in 1840 Roads and Canals, 1820-1850 • Canal boom • Effect on transportation and trade patterns

  10. TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION • Railroads • Baltimore & Ohio RR (1830) • short lines • trunk lines

  11. 2-National Market Economy: Inland Freight Rates, 1790-1865

  12. National Market Economy: The Speed of News in 1817 and 1841

  13. 3- BEGINNINGS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION Factory System developed Rise of Corporations Technological Innovations Labor – need workers for jobs Old Northwest – new market for goods

  14. Industrial Revolution The American Industrial Revolution occurred between 1790 and 1860. It began in England in the 18th century and spread to the United States. Cotton gin National road Canals Steam boats Railroads Why we were these inventions so important.

  15. BEGINNINGS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION • textiles • Samuel Slater • factory system Samuel Slater(“Father of the Factory System”)

  16. BEGINNINGS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION • Lowell (or Waltham) Factory System • Francis Cabot Lowell • First dual-purpose textile plants • employees • first to produce cloth • Lowell towns New England Textile Centers: 1830s Lowell, Mass. in 1850

  17. The Growth of Cotton Textile Manufacturing, 1810–1840

  18. 4. INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS • Americans were willing to try anything. • They were first copiers, then innovators. • Patents Approved: • 1800: 41 • 1860: 4,357

  19. Eli Whitney: The Cotton Gin, 1791 (Actually invented by a slave)

  20. Cyrus McCormick& the Mechanical Reaper

  21. CHANGES TO SOCIETY The market economy changed: • class structure • The nature and location of work • Gender roles (Middle class) • the standard of living Social Class structure • Working class • Rise of the middle class • Social mobility? • Geographic mobility UPPER MIDDLE WORKING LOWER Where do Farmers fit?

  22. POPULATION GROWTH • 1775 2.5 Million • 1790 4 Million • 1820 10 Million • 1840 17 Million • 1860 32 Million

  23. Immigration National Origin of Immigrants:1820 - 1860 Major immigrant groups • Irish • Germans • English When did they come? Where did they settle? Immigration to the United States, 1820-1860

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