CHAPTER 10 – America’s Economic Revolution

1. THE CHANGING AMERICAN POPULATION

a. The American Population, 1820-1840

b. Immigration and Urban Growth, 1840-1860

c. The Rise of Nativism

2. TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATIONS, AND TECHNOLOGY

a. The Canal Age

b. The Early Railroads

c. The Triumph of the Rails

d. Innovations in Communications and Journalism

3. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

a. The Expansion of Business, 1820-1840

b. The Emergence of the Factory

c. Advances in Technology

4. MEN AND WOMEN AT WORK

a. Recruiting a Native Workforce

b. The Immigrant Workforce

c. The Factory System and the Artisan Tradition

d. Fighting for Control

e. “Free Labor”

5. PATTERNS OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

a. The Rich and the Poor

b. Social Mobility

c. Middle-Class Life

d. The Changing Family

e. Women and the “Cult of Domesticity”

f. Leisure Activities

6. THE AGRICULTURAL NORTH

a. Northeastern Agriculture

b. The Old Northwest

c. Rural Life

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ....

• market economy
• emerging urban middle class
• textile machinery
• steam engine
• interchangeable parts
• canal
• railroad
• telegraph
• agricultural inventions
• women in factories
• semi-subsistence agriculture
• urban entrepreneurs
• cotton
• Old Northwest
• separation between home and workplace
• transformations in gender and family roles
• national bank
• tariff
• internal improvements
• Anti-Catholic
• Nativism
• free-labor manufacturing
• slave-based agriculture
• sectionalism
• unified national economy

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• Commonwealth v Hunt
• cult of domesticity
• Cyrus H. McCormick
• Erie Canal
• factory system
• Know-Nothings
• cotton gin
• mechanical reaper
• Lowell system
• machine tools
• Nativism
• P.T. Barnum
• Samuel F.B. Morse
• Sarah Bagley
• Hudson River School
• steel plow

Lowell Mills Video

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