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Moving West

America Expands. Moving West. Rapid Expansion. Population growth Growth of cities Western cities New Orleans and Chicago Increased Immigration Germans and Irish. Immigration Growth. Irish Immigrants Potato Famine Black Forties Immigrated to US Uneducated Poor Catholic Treatment

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Moving West

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  1. America Expands Moving West

  2. Rapid Expansion • Population growth • Growth of cities • Western cities • New Orleans and Chicago • Increased Immigration • Germans and Irish

  3. Immigration Growth • Irish Immigrants • Potato Famine • Black Forties • Immigrated to US • Uneducated • Poor • Catholic • Treatment • Worst, lowest paying jobs • Determined and hard working

  4. Immigration Growth • German Immigrants, “Forty-eighters” • German Revolution • Movement West • Wisconsin • Characteristics • Lutheran • Drank Beer • Anti-slavery • Preserved culture

  5. Nativist Reaction • American born/Anti-immigrant • Criticisms • Poor, uneducated, Catholic, low wages • Know-Nothings • Order of the Star Spangled Banner • Violence and discrimination based on sensationalism.

  6. Problems with Catholics • Relations b/t Catholics and Protestants • http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/view/

  7. Industrial Revolution • Successful in US • Cheap land • Workers • Immigrants • Raw materials. • Consumers • New Labor • Wage Slaves • Women

  8. Women in the Workforce • Nursing, domestic service and Teaching • Women in the factory • Single • Young • Lived together near factory • Strictly controlled • Poor working conditions • Lowell, Massachusetts • Textile factories • Early adopter of women in factories

  9. Chapter 14 Review: • Summarize and answer the following questions: • How does the image of the frontier compare with the reality of pioneer life as described in the chapter? Describe image and reality. • Review the push factors that forced Europeans (specifically the Irish and Germans) from their home countries. What were the pull factors that attracted them to the United States? Why was the United States more appealing than other locations for European immigrants? • Which technological innovation was most important for early-nineteenth-century economic development? • What effects did the movement from a subsistence to a market economy have on American society, including farmers, laborers, and women? What were the advantages and disadvantages of the change?

  10. Western Frontier Image of the West Reality

  11. European Immigrants in the US Push Factors Pull Factors

  12. Technological Innovations Innovation Importance

  13. Move to the Market Subsistence Market • Farmers • Laborers • Women

  14. Ch. 15 Review • What particular qualities did Evangelical religion give to the early American culture? Why did so many of its energies move toward the reform of society? Were there elements of American religion that resisted the reform impulse? • How important is a free public education to a republic? If it is important, why then was early education so poor? If it is not important, why did it begin? Do you agree that public education was "an insurance premium that the wealthy paid for stability and democracy," as the authors assert? Is it important to a republic to have compulsory public education? • Were the cult of domesticity and the rise of the child-centered family signs of an improvement or a restriction on women’s status and condition? Was the new family a progressive reflection of American democratic ideals, or a restriction on them? • Why did America produce so many reform and utopian movements? What did they contribute to American culture? • What made women such prominent leaders in the religious and reform movements? How did the women’s rights movement compare with the other movements of the period? What obstacles did women reformers face? Why did women often have more difficulty working on their own behalf than they did advocating other causes?

  15. Second Great Awakening • Qualities of Evangelical Religion- • Linked to Reform- • Anti-Reform-

  16. Public Education • Free Education? • Purpose • Who Pays • Quality • Compulsory Education?

  17. Women at Home • Cult of Domesticity • Improvement? • Restriction? • Child Centered Family • Improvement? • Restriction?

  18. Reform and Utopias • Reform Contribution? • 1. • 2. • 3. • Utopian Movement Contribution? • 1. • 2. • 3.

  19. Women in Movements • Women involved in Reform • Women’s Rights movement • Obstacles to success

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