12. Industry and the North 1790s-1840s. Chapter Focus Questions. What were the effects of the transportation revolution? What was the market revolution? What did industrialization affect workers in early factories? How did the market revolution change the lives of ordinary people? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Chapter
Seventh EditionSeventh Edition
OOut of Manyut of ManyA History of the American PeopleA History of the American People
Out of Many: A History of the American People, Brief Sixth EditionJohn Mack Faragher • Mari Jo Buhle • Daniel Czitrom • Susan H. Armitage
Industry and the North1790s-1840s
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Chapter Focus Questions
• What were the effects of the transportation revolution?
• What was the market revolution?• What did industrialization affect workers in
early factories?• How did the market revolution change the
lives of ordinary people?• What were the values of the new middle
class?
Women Factory Workers Form a Community in Lowell, Massachusetts
• Young women from New England farms worked in the Lowell textile mills.
• Initially, the women found the work a welcome change from farm routine, but later conflict arose with their employers.
• By the 1830s, mill owners cut wages and ended their paternalistic practices.
Women Factory Workers Form a Community in Lowell, Massachusetts
• The result was strikes and the replacement of the young women with more manageable Irish immigrants.
• The Market Revolution changed the way people worked and increased differences between North and South.
The Transportation Revolution
The Transportation Revolution
• Between 1800 and 1840, the building of roads and canals, and the steamboat stimulated the transportation revolution that: encouraged growth; promoted the mobility of people and goods;
and fostered the growing commercial spirit.
Roads
• Federal Government funds the National Road in 1808—at the time the single greatest federal transportation expense
• The National Road tied the East and West together providing strong evidence of the nation’s commitment to expansion and cohesion
MAP 12.1 Travel Times, 1800 and 1857
Railroads (cont'd)
• By the 1850s consolidation of rail lines facilitated standardization.
Effects of the Transportation Revolution
• The transportation revolution: provided Americans much greater mobility; linked Americans beyond the local
communities; Made a Market Revolution possible and; fostered a risk-taking mentality that promoted