transforming american society (1800-1840) chapter 9

Transforming American Society (1800-1840)

Chapter 9

14 Vermont March 4, 1791

15 Kentucky June 1, 1792

16 Tennessee June 1, 1796

17 Ohio March 1, 1803

18 Louisiana April 30, 1812

19 Indiana December 11, 1816

20 Mississippi December 10, 1817

21 Illinois December 3, 1818

22 Alabama December 14, 1819

23 Maine March 15, 1820

24 Missouri August 10, 1821

Western Expansion

• By 1821, 11 new states had been admitted

• Where did the new settlers settle and why?

• What were the causes of Western settlement?

Western Society

• What was life like for Western pioneers after they settled in the West?

• What was the “Far West” and how did these “mountain men” survive?

Explorations of Jedediah Smith

The Oregon Trail

Life for a Settler

• You are a family traveling to the West, do the following:

1)Artist – draw a picture of what you would have seen in the West (make note of at least 5 specific things)

2)Writer – write a diary entry of what you would have seen (5 specific things)

3)Trail Leader – draw a map of where you are going and list 5 specific things you would run into or want to avoid

What did the government do?

• To stimulate Western growth the gov’t:

- Extended the Land Ordinance and Northwest Ordinance to new regions

- Advertised settling in Louisiana Territory and Florida, bought new lands

- Gave land grants to 1812 war veterans

- Extended the National Road to the West

- Removed the Native Americans

Ordinance of 1785 and Northwest Ordinance

Transcontinental Treaty

National Road

Indian Lands in 1820s

Removing the Native Americans

• The Indian Removal Act (1830)

• Indian Resistance to the Act (Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Black Hawk War)

• The 5 Civilized Tribes are moved West of the Mississippi (“Trail of Tears”)

What was the impact on both the Western settlers and the Native Americans?

Five Civilized Tribes

Trail of Tears

The Booming Western Economy

• Boom #1 – Agricultural Boom

• Boom #2 – Federal Government Boom

• Boom #3 – Transportation Boom

Here Comes the Boom

Boom Agricultural Federal Transportation

Cause of Boom

Events in Boom

Effects of Boom

The Cotton Gin

Panic of 1819The Second National Bank came under fire for the way they handled the Panic by tightening credit and slowing down the economy, leading to future distrust

Robert Fulton

Erie Canal

Urbanization

Western Expansion Essay Outline

• Explain the causes and effects of Western expansion on the United States economy

• Needs a:

1) Thesis Statement

2) 2 opening paragraph sentences with 3 listed specifics each OR 3 opening sentences with 2 specifics each

3) Conclusion Statement

The New Industrial Era

• What were the causes of the new Industrial era?

• What new ideas helped to further help industry during the Industrial Era?

• What were the first new industries of the Industrial Era and what did they create?

Eli Whitney’s Interchangeable Parts

Interchangeable Parts allowed industrial machinery to run more efficiently because parts of machinery could be used for different tasks

Samuel Slater’s First MillSamuel Slater’s cotton mill was one of the first created in the Northeast that used water powered machines

How did the Industrial Revolution of the 1820s and

1830s impact the US?

• The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. Irving Babbitt

• The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. Stephen Gardiner

North v. South in Industry

• Why were the North and Mid-Atlantic states successful in industrializing?

• Why did the South struggle to industrialize?

• What were the economic effects of the industrialization? What were the social effects?

Social Relations in Early 1800s

• Rich v. Poor (5 Points District)

• African-Americans (Richard Allen)

• Women

• Middle Class Industrial Workers

Five Points District in NY

The gap between rich and poor widened most in the cities where slums began to appear

Richard Allen and others founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which engaged in antislavery activities and gave blacks aid

Black Churches – Wade in the Water Baptism

Lowell Mill Girls

Unmarried young women were likely to get jobs working in the new mills due to their cheap wages

Social Relationships

• What was the reaction of people towards:

- Professional Authority

- Family Authority

- “Doctrine of Separate Spheres”

- Voluntary Associations (Temperance)

Challenging Authority

1) Professionals such as doctors were distrusted in a changing economy

2) The family with wives getting more independent regarding home family issues (“Doctrine of Separate Spheres”)

3) Children left home sooner and have more control over marriages

Temperance Movement

Tocqueville’s Study of America

• With the city that you are researching:1) Create a 6 slide cartoon strip that shows the daily social life of people in the city2) Create a 1 page skit that shows conversations involving economic relationships in the city (jobs, rich v. poor)3) Create a 1 page political speech that a politician in the city may have made (what would he/she have believed? What issues were important?)