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1. Chapter 9 (2nd Half)

2. Industrialization Factors 1) Embargo Act 2) Era of Good Feeling 3) Good River Systems (NE) 4) Transportation Revolution 5) Population/Urban Growth 6) New Technologies
3. Industrialization Cotton Textiles led the way in Industrialization Waltham and Lowell Mills=Took Slater’s Mills a Step Further Mill Conditions-Bad Windows Boarded Shut Misty Air (needed humidity) Dusty Loud Low Paying
4. Organized Labor Skilled Labor started losing jobs 1820’s-Trade Unions starting to form
5. Rich and Poor Small portion of people controlled most of the wealth Boston-10% of population owing over 50% of city real estate Less than 5% of wealthy started off “poor” Wealthy lived well (social clubs, extravagant lifestyles) Poor had difficult lives Irish=Poorest of poor, also Catholic
6. Free Blacks No Northern Slavery after 1820 Difficult life in north-Cannot Vote, Couldn’t migrate, segregation, least skilled and lowest paying jobs Formed social groups to help cope with treatment/prejudice
7. Middling Class & Professionals Not Wealthy, Not Poor=“Middle Class” Families headed by professionals, small merchants, manufacturers, artisans, very transient People Perceived Professionals as “Elitist”
8. Family Life Throughout 1800’s traditional family life started to change More Economic Opportunity Growth of Urban Life Courting Practices Changed No longer marrying in birth order Some women choosing not to marry Doctrine of Separate Spheres Women Raising Children Men=Bread Winner
9. Horizontal and Vertical Relationships Vertical-Traditional/Patriarchal Family Horizontal-Relationships with people in a common life situation----led to voluntary associations