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Chapter 3. Nationalism and Sectionalism 1812-1855. Section 1 Vocabulary:. Turnpike: roads for which users had to pay a toll National Road: extended west from Maryland to the Ohio River in 1818 Erie Canal: ran 363 miles across New York State from Lake Erie to the Hudson River.
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Chapter 3 Nationalism and Sectionalism 1812-1855
Section 1 Vocabulary: • Turnpike: roads for which users had to pay a toll • National Road: extended west from Maryland to the Ohio River in 1818 • Erie Canal: ran 363 miles across New York State from Lake Erie to the Hudson River. • Industrial Revolution: developments in technology that transformed manufacturing; influencing culture, social life, and politics. • Samuel Slater: built the nations first water-powered textile mill in 1793. • Francis Cabot Lowell: built a mill in which all operations in the manufacture of cloth occurred. • Lowell Girl: young, single women recruited from area farms who worked at the Lowell mill. • Interchangeable Parts: identical components that could be used in place of one another; improved efficiency in manufacturers, factories, and designed products. • Eli Whitney: created the idea of interchangeable parts • Samuel F.B. Morse: invented the electric telegraph
Crash Course: “Market Revolution” • http://youtu.be/RNftCCwAol0
Prior to the Transportation Revolution • The original 13 states and major cities sprang up around waterways (harbors, lakes, rivers etc.) because water, at the time, proved the easiest for transporting goods and people. • Land transportation consisted of dirt roads with a horse and buggy. • Southern colonies heard about the Declaration of Independence 29 days after it was signed.
Transportation • Turnpikes-roads in which people had to pay a toll- were created –early 1800s
The National Road • The National Road, 1818: Main road, made from rock, from Maryland to the Ohio River. Funded by the National Government.
Robert Fulton • Robert Fulton created the Steamboat. • (1st one called Clermont) which made travel easier • Burning wood/coal, the engine boiled the water to create steam. The force of the steam turned a large, rotating paddle, pushing the boat. • For instance, it took the boat 20 days to go from New Orleans to Louisville as opposed to 4 months before.
Erie Canal 1825 • http://youtu.be/6_f7S4BojGI • 363 miles from Albany, New York to Buffalo, New York. • Lowered the cost of transporting from $100 to $4 per ton. • NYC population skyrocketed! • 124,000 people in 1820 to 800,000 in 1860.
The Railroad… • Railroads transformed the transportation industry. • Pulled heavier loads of freight/passengers at higher speeds. • Cost less than canals to build. • Unlike the canal, you could transfer goods anywhere and not just where there was water.
The Industrial Revolution • Began in Great Britain with the Spinning Jenny. • Transformed culture, social life, and politics. • The Industrial Revolution: social and economic reorganization that took place as machines replaced hand tools and large-scale factory production developed. • Mass Production: The production of goods in large quantities. • Impacts???? Quicker Production, cheaper, No longer a need for skilled workers.
Samuel F. B. Morse 1840 – Telegraph Through Morse Code (dots and dashes) messages could be delivered almost instantly. By 1860 the nation had 50,000 miles of telegraph lines.
Elias Howe & Isaac Singer 1840sSewing Machine
The Lowell Mills • Francis Cabot Lowell, Nathan Appleton, and Patrick Tracy Jackson built a weaving factory in Waltham, Massachusetts. • The town became known as Lowell, became a booming, manufacturing center. • Incorporated all stages of cloth manufacturing. • Thousands of workers, mostly young women, came to Lowell because their families’ farms were in decline.
I’m a Factory Girl Filled with Wishes I'm a factory girlEveryday filled with fearFrom breathing in the poison airWishing for windows!I'm a factory girlTired from the 13 hours of work each dayAnd we have such low payWishing for shorten work times!I'm a factory girlNever having enough time to eatNor to rest my feetWishing for more free time!I'm a factory girlSick of all this harsh conditionsMaking me want to sign the petition!So do what I ask for because I am a factory girlAnd I'm hereby speaking for all the rest!
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, 1791 • Interchangeable Parts much more efficient! • Reinvigorated a Declining Slavery by quickly separating the seeds from the cotton. • EFFICICENCY!!!
Section 2 Vocabulary • Tariff of 1816: a tariff on imports designed to protect American industry. • Capital: money needed to build factories or other productive assests. • Labor Union: groups of workers who unite to seek better pay and conditions. • Nativists: campaigned for laws to discourage immigration or to deny political rights to newcomers. • Cotton Gin: this machine reduced the amount of time and the cost of separating the cotton seeds from the valuable white fiber.
Why Industrialization Spread… • The embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812 cut off access to British manufactured goods. • Thus, America began to build its own factories. • The Tariff of 1816: A tariff on imports designed to protect American industry. Increased the price of manufactured goods by an average of 20-25%. • This encouraged Americans to buy products made in the United States. • The tariff helped industry, but hurt farmers, who had to pay higher prices for consumer gods.
Why the North??? • Greater access to capital, or money needed to build factories. • Numerous rivers to provide power for the new factories. • More cheap labor to work in the factories.
Workers Organize… • Due to working conditions and low wages, workers organized labor unions such as the Workingmen’s Party. • Labor Unions: groups of workers who unite to see better pay and conditions. • For example, the Lowell Mill girls went on strike and failed to achieve their goals.
A Middle Class Emerges… • A Middle class emerges. (bankers, lawyers, accountants, clerks, auctioneers, brokers, and retailers) • Families moved to the suburbs to get away from the hustle and bustle of the factory cities. • Cult of Domesticity: Emphasized new ideas of femininity, the woman's role within the home and the dynamics of work and family. "True women" were supposed to possess four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness.
Emigration from Ireland and Germany • Immigrants (Irish and German Catholic) flood into the U.S. • Primarily in response to the Irish Potato Famine in Europe. • 2.8 million in the 1850s – they fill factory jobs and work for almost nothing. • Nativists emerge who are against immigration...from the Whig party.
Regional Specialization Distinct Economies NORTH EAST Industrial SOUTH Cotton & Slavery -Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin. -Cotton was in great demand in GB and the North http://youtu.be/6eT4bNxkv-c WEST The Nation’s “Breadbasket”
Southern Agriculture“King Cotton” • 3 developments boosted cotton production: • 1-TheCotton Gin – invented by Eli Whitney it separated the cotton seeds. • 2- Western expansion to find more land to grow cotton. • 3 – Industrialization.
The Expansion of Slavery • The cotton boom spread slavery, even though overseas slave trade was abolished in 1808, from 1.5 million in 1820 to 4 million in 1860.
Economic Consequences of Slavery… • Because the South specialized in one crop, if there was a bad year, some farmers went bankrupt. • Plantation dispersed the population. • Not much urban growth compared to the North. • Smaller population size. The South did not attract immigrants.
Cultural Consequences of Slavery… • Slaveholders were a minority. • No more than ¼ Southerners had slaves in 1860. • ¾ of slave owners had less than 10 slaves. • Only about 3,000 Southerners owned 100 or more. • Typical slaveholder owned only four our five slaves. • Why then Defend Slavery? • Whites felt a sense of racial superiority along all class lines. 2. Fear of slave revenge. 3. Prospect of future wealth.
Section 3 Vocabulary: • Nationalism: • Henry Clay: • American System: • John Quincy Adams: • First Seminole War: • Adams-Onis Treaty: • Monroe Doctrine: • Missouri Compromise:
“Era of Good Feelings” • In 1817 a paper in Boston described politics as entering an “Era of Good Feelings.” The Democratic-Republican party operated without opposition due to the “death” of the Federalist party after the War of 1812. • James Monroe almost unanimously won reelection –Nationalism swept the country and now the (DR) wanted to use Federal power to help industry instead of favoring trade without tariffs • http://youtu.be/beN4qE-e5O8
Henry Clay’s American System: • As the North and South developed different economies, the creation of a plan to unify the nation became increasingly important. • Henry Clay’s American System: Would unite the nation’s economic interests: 1. Develop a transportation system and other internal improvements. 2. Establish a protective tariff 3. Resurrect the national bank (reduced in Jefferson’s presidency).
Giving the Federal Government more power through the Courts • Dartmouth v Woodward – limited a state’s power to interfere in business contracts • McCulloch v. MD • Gibbons v Ogden • These cases allowed the U.S. to have business united
Panic of 1819 • As transportation grew, things were more connected and their were “boom and bust cycles” • In 1819 thousands lost their jobs. Their farms were in trouble as well. • Caused people to doubt capitalism and blame the banks.
Influence on Art and Lit • Artists and Authors drew and wrote like the US was a source of unique inspiration • Reflected the spirit of nationalism. • Hudson River School – A group of painters that showed the beauty of America. • James Fenimore Cooper – Wrote frontier adventures. The Last of the Mohicans. • Washington Irving – Wrote Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow and was part of the school called the Knickerbocker School/New Nationalists.
Adams Onis Treaty • Spain sold Florida to the United States. • Ended Spanish claims in the Oregon Territory. • The U.S. and Great Britain agreed to share the Oregon territory.
Monroe Doctrine 1823 • Several European countries wanted South America. • GB said to US, you want to team up to stop them • US said no and said we’ll stay our of your business if you stay our of American Republics. • Not too big a threat now b/c US didn’t have much military power • Foreign policy doctrine set forth by President Monroe in 1823 that discouraged European intervention in the Western Hemisphere.
Missouri Compromise 182036° 30’ N • Missouri wanted to enter the Union as a slave state but there was already 11 slave and 11 free states. • A NY congressman said that they could ban slavery in Missouri in order for the state to join the Union, but the South did not like that that. • Henry Clay (The Great Compromiser): Came up with the compromise which said that Missouri would come in as a slave state and Maine would come in as a free state. • The compromise also drew a line across the continent from the southwestern corner of Missouri to the nation’s western boundary. • Territories south of that line would enter as slave states. Those north of the line would become free states.