A New Economy

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Give Me Liberty! AN AMERICAN HISTORY FOURTH EDITION

by Eric Foner

Lecture Preview • • • •

A New Economy Market Society The Free Individual The Limits of Prosperity

A watercolor from 1830 depicts the Erie Canal five years after it opened.

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A New Economy  Focus Question: What were the main elements of the market revolution?

A New Economy: Transportation • •

Roads and Steamboats The Erie Canal

Map 9.1 The Market Revolution: Roads and Canals, 1840

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An 1810 advertisement for a stagecoach route linking Boston and Sandwich, Massachusetts

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Great Seal of Ohio

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An 1837 copy of a color drawing that accompanied a patent application for a type of raft designed in 1818

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A view of New York City in 1849

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A New Economy: Communication •

Railroads and the Telegraph

A New Economy: The West •

The Rise of the West

Map 9.2 The Market Revolution: Western Settlement, 1800–1820

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Map 9.3 Travel times from New York City in 1800 and 1830

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Table 9.1 Population Growth of Selected Western States, 1800–1850 (Excluding Indians)

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An 1827 engraving designed to show the feasibility of railroads driven by steam-powered locomotives

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A watercolor by the artist Edwin Whitefield depicts a squatter’s cabin in the Minnesota woods.

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A New Economy: Cotton and Slavery • •

The Cotton Kingdom The Unfree Westward Movement

Map 9.4 The Market Revolution: the spread of cotton cultivation, 1820–1840

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Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee

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Market Society

 Focus Question: How did the market revolution spark social change?

Market Society: Farming •

Commercial Farmers

Market Society: cities •

The Growth of Cities

Map 9.5 Major Cities, 1840

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A painting of Cincinnati, self-styled Queen City of the West, from 1835

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Market Society: Factories •

The Factory System

Map 9.6 Cotton Mills, 1820s

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Manufacturing Workshop in New York City

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Mill on the Brandywine, an 1830 watercolor of a Pennsylvania paper mill

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Market Society: Labor • •

The Industrial Worker The “Mill Girls”

A broadside from 1853, illustrating the long hours of work in the textile mills

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Women at work tending machines in the Lowell textile mills

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Market Society: Immigration • •

The Growth of Immigration Irish and German Newcomers

Table 9.2 Total Number of Immigrants by Five-Year Period

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Young Women Workers from the Amoskeag Textile Mills

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Currency issued by Bank Sanford, Maine

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Although our image of the West emphasizes the lone pioneer, many migrants settled in tightly knit communities and worked cooperatively.

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Market Society: Nativism •

The Rise of Nativism

Figure 9.1 Sources of Immigration

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Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts

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Market Society: Corporate Law •

The Transformation of Law

The Free Individual

 Focus Question: How did the meanings of American freedom change in this period?

The Free Individual: manifest destiny •

The West and Freedom

The Free Individual: Philosophy • •

The Transcendentalists Individualism

The daguerreotype, an early form of photography

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Title Page of Walden

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The Free Individual: Religion • •

The Second Great Awakening The Awakening’s Impact

Religious Camp Meeting, a watercolor from the late 1830s

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Das neue Jerusalem (The New Jerusalem)

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The Free Individual: Mormons •

The Emergence of Mormonism

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The Limits of Prosperity  Focus Question: How did the market revolution affect the lives of workers, women, and AfricanAmericans?

The Limits of Prosperity: Market revolution •

Liberty and Prosperity

Pat Lyon at the Forge, an 1826–1827 painting of a prosperous blacksmith

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The Limits of Prosperity: Racism •

Race and Opportunity

Juliann Jane Tillman, a preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church

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The Limits of Prosperity: Women’s roles •

The Cult of Domesticity

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A woman with a sewing machine, in an undated photograph.

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The Limits of Prosperity: Women Workers •

Women and Work

An image from a female infant’s 1830 birth and baptismal certificate

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The Limits of Prosperity: Labor unions • •

The Early Labor Movement The “Liberty of Living”

No More Grinding the Poor—But Liberty and the Rights of Man

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The Shoemakers’ Strike in Lynn—Procession in the Midst of a Snow-Storm, of Eight Hundred Women Operatives

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Review •

A New Economy Focus Question: What were the main elements of the market revolution?

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Market Society Focus Question: How did the market revolution spark social change?

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The Free Individual Focus Question: How did the meanings of American freedom change in this period?

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The Limits of Prosperity Focus Question: How did the market revolution affect the lives of workers, women, and African-Americans?

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Eric Foner on the cotton kingdom

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Eric Foner on westward expansion in the 19th century

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Eric Foner on the abolitionist movement

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Eric Foner on Mormons as an American and global phenomenon

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Democracy in America, 1815–1840 • • • • •

The Triumph of Democracy Nationalism and Its Discontents Nation, Section, and Party The Age of Jackson The Bank War and After

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