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CHAPTER 9

THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY,

1815–1840


Westward Expansion

– The Sweep West • Western Society and Customs

– The Far West – The Federal Government and the West – The Removal of the Indians – The Agricultural Boom


The Removal of the Native Americans to the West, 1820 1840


The Growth of the Market Economy

• Federal Land Policy • The Speculator and the Squatter • The Panic of 1819 • The Transportation Revolution: Steamboats,

Canals, and Railroads • The Growth of Cities


Industrial Beginnings

• Causes of Industrialization • Textile Towns in New England • Artisans and Workers in Mid-Atlantic Cities


Equality and Inequality

• Urban Inequality: The Rich and the Poor Free• Blacks in the North • The “Middling Classes”


The Revolution in Social Relationships

• The Attack on the Professions • The Challenge to Family Authority • Wives and Husband • Horizontal Allegiances and the Rise of Voluntary

Associations


Major Rivers,Roads, and Canals, 1825–1860


Population Distribution,1790 and 1850

• Industrial Beginnings


American Cities,1820 and 1860

• Textile Towns in New England Source: Statistical Abstract of the United States


U.S. Manufacturing Employment, 1820 and 1850

Source: Historical Atlas of the United States, 2nd ed.(Washington,D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1993), p. 148.Reprinted by permission of National Geographic Maps/NationalGeographic Society Image Collection

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