Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 12/e

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

2. Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 12/e Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

3. 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

4. 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

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

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

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

8. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South • The Cotton Economy • The Rise of King Cotton • Decline of the Tobacco Economy • Short-Staple Cotton • Spread of Cotton Production Slavery and Cotton in the South, 1820 & 1860

9. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South • The Cotton Economy • The Rise of King Cotton • Decline of the Tobacco Economy • Short-Staple Cotton • Spread of Cotton Production • Expansion of Slavery Cotton Gin in Use (Library of Congress)

10. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South • The Cotton Economy • Sources of Southern Difference • Reasons for Colonial Dependency Plantations In Louisiana, 1858

11. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South • The Cotton Economy • Sources of Southern Difference • Reasons for Colonial Dependency • The Cavalier Image

12. 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

13. 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

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

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

16. 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

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

18. 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

19. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South • White Society in the South • The Planter Class • Planter Aristocracy • Plantation Management A Georgia Plantation

20. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South • White Society in the South • The “Southern Lady” • Subordinate Status of Women • Other Burdens

21. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South • White Society in the South • The Plain Folk • Limited Educational Opportunities • Hill People • Close Relations with the Plantation Aristocracy • Commitment to Paternalism • Limited Class Conflict

22. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South • Slavery: The “Peculiar Institution” • Varieties of Slavery • Legal Basis of Slavery • Reality of Slavery • Task and Gang Systems

23. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South • Slavery: The “Peculiar Institution” • Life Under Slavery • High Slave Mortality Rates • House Slaves • Sexual Abuse

24. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South • Slavery: The “Peculiar Institution” • The Slave Trade • Slave Markets The Business of Slavery(Library of Congress)

25. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South • The Culture of Slavery • African-American Religion • Slave Religion

26. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South • The Culture of Slavery • The Slave Family • Slave Marriages • Importance of Kinship Networks • Paternal Nature of Slavery