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Market Revolution

Market Revolution. What was the Market Revolution?. Dramatic change in scale and impact of market activity. Surge in manufacturing (North and Northwest). More people brought into a larger market economy. Causes many economic, social, and cultural changes. Before the market Rev.

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Market Revolution

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  1. Market Revolution

  2. What was the Market Revolution? • Dramatic change in scale and impact of market activity. • Surge in manufacturing (North and Northwest). • More people brought into a larger market economy. • Causes many economic, social, and cultural changes.

  3. Before the market Rev. • Most people are rural (mainly subsistence) farmers. • All of the family is involved—but patriarchal. • Grow food & raise animals for self consumption. • Make other things like clothes, furniture, etc. • Trade with neighbors for things they can’t make (barter economy—no exchange of cash & no “fixed” prices). • Some, though, have excess crops they sell on the commercial market.

  4. Pre-Industrial Artisan System • Artisan = skilled craftsman (blacksmith, shoemaker, barrel maker, wheel maker, tailor, etc). • Apprentice—Journeyman—master • “self-making” • Leisurely and personal • “home” and “work” are intermixed • Make the “whole” product

  5. Home Manufacturing • “Putting-Out” System • Merchant provides raw materials. • 1st Women who do textile work at home to augment family income (usually in New England). • Later, people are given parts of a process to work on (example = shoes). Lynn, Mass. • Are paid by piece. • De-skilling (no longer making whole product) • Challenges artisan system

  6. The Market Revolution • Causes: • A. Improvements in Transportation • B. Increased Industrialization • C. Improvements in communications Result = Increased commercialization (more Americans involved in commercial market activity).

  7. Transportation • Steamboats • Canals (Erie) N. East—N.West. • Railroads • A. B & O (1830) • B. Different “gauges.” • C. Take-Off in 1840s • D. Mostly in North • E. Private funding & help from local and national govt.

  8. Communication • Samuel F.B. Morse • 1844 “What Hath God Wrought?” • Mostly in North • Western Union

  9. Morse as an Artist

  10. Industrialism • Samuel Slater—Spinning Mill in Pawtucket, RI. First modern factory in America. 1793 • Most early factories in NE use female labor. • Families in mid-Atlantic. • 1st water, then steam for power

  11. The Lowell System • Female Employees • Chaperoned boardinghouses. • Highly regulated environment • Cultural activities

  12. American System • Eli Whitney—Interchangeable parts

  13. Impact of Market Revolution • More impersonal workplace • More emphasis on time (less leisurely) • More people use cash • People begin to buy more things & make less.

  14. Impact on Home • Home and workplace become separate (separate spheres). • Home begins to be seen as refuge from hurly-burly of workplace. • Middle-class women have new role as “home-maker” because of their unique female virtues. • “Cult of Domesticity” • But applies only to white middle and upper class women.

  15. The New Middle Class • Market Rev. created new types of jobs—clerks, bookkeepers, etc. (“White Collar”). • Land ownership no longer only avenue for wealth • Increasing middle-class emerges • Distinct lifestyle emerges in which material possessions indicate success.

  16. New Labor Force • Competition forced factory owners to cut wages and working conditions began to deteriorate. • Factory owners begin to turn to immigrant labor (The Irish).

  17. New Immigrants • 1840s and 1850s = huge surge in Immigration. • Irish—single, poor, Catholic (Eastern cities) • Germans—families, $, mostly Protestant (Northwest)

  18. Response to Immigration • Nativism • Seen as a threat to republicanism • Competition for jobs • 1845—Native American Party • Wanted to ban Catholics and foreign born from holding office, restrict immigration, and have literacy tests for voting. • Eventually become “Know-Nothings”

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