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Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life, 1840-1860

Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life, 1840-1860. Chapter 11. Technology. The Antebellum Period New Inventions 1840-1860 The American Standard of Living New Manufacturing techniques. New Inventions. John Deere (1837) Cyrus McCormick (1847) Wheat Wasteful farming New Fertilizer.

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Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life, 1840-1860

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  1. Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life, 1840-1860 Chapter 11

  2. Technology The Antebellum Period New Inventions 1840-1860 The American Standard of Living New Manufacturing techniques

  3. New Inventions John Deere (1837) Cyrus McCormick (1847) Wheat Wasteful farming New Fertilizer

  4. New Inventions Eli Whitney and Interchangeable parts Mass Production Samuel Colt Elias Howe Samuel F.B. Morse

  5. The Railroad Conquering Time 1860 Connecting to the Midwest Shipping America’s First Big Business Wall Street Time Zones (1883)

  6. Technology Technology affects the price of goods City Development Job opportunities Women and Children

  7. Technology Medicine Popular Health Fads Row Houses Tenements Frontier Log Cabins

  8. Technology Conveniences and Inconveniences Heating, cooking, and diets Coal Burning Out of season foods Salt preservation Water lines

  9. Disease and Health Diseases Municipal Boards of Health The view of the medical profession Anesthetics Surgery techniques William T.G. Morton

  10. Health Fads Hydropathy Grahamites Phrenology

  11. Newspapers James Gordon Bennett The New York World Penny Papers Paper Boys Human Interest Stories

  12. The Antebellum Period Entertainment Theater Minstrel Shows P.T. Barnum

  13. Literature American Writing Washington Irving Harriet Beecher Stowe Ralph Waldo Emerson Transcendentalism Henry David Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”

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