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“Stop That Barrelâ€. William Henry Harrison Campaign Song. “Tip and Tye†(Words and Music by "A member of the Fifth Ward Club“, published 1840)
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William Henry Harrison Campaign Song • “Tip and Tye”(Words and Music by "A member of the Fifth Ward Club“, published 1840) • What has caus'd this great com-mo-tion, mo-tion, mot-ion our coun-try through, It is the ball that's rol-ling on, For Tip-pi-ca-noe, and Ty-ler too, • For Tip-pi-ca-noe, and Ty-ler too, And with them we'll beat lit-tle Van, Van, Van is a us'd up man, And with them we'll beat lit-tle Van.
Rugged individualism and ecological imperialism Population explosion Birthrates Immigration Who? Why? Nativists Issues and actions Westward Expansion / Immigration Pages 297-306
The belief that all individuals, or nearly all individuals, can succeed on their own and that government help for people should be minimal. What is this called today? Is this a myth or a reality? Rugged Individualism
Use resources without regard for replenishment How? Farming techniques Land clearing Harvesting of Wildlife Conservation vs. Expansion Should there be limits? Ecological Imperialism
Americans constitute approximately 5% of the world's population, but they produce roughly 25% of the world’s CO2, consume about 25% of world’s resources, including approximately 26% of the world's energy, although having only around 3% of the world’s known oil reserves, and generate approximately 30% of world’s waste. The average American's impact on the environment is approximately 250 times greater than the average Sub-Saharan African's. In other words, with current consumption patterns, population growth in the United States is more of a threat to the Earth's environment than population growth in any other part of the world (currently, at least 1.8 million legal and illegal immigrants settle in the United States each year; with the average Hispanic woman giving birth to 3 children in her lifetime) Current Issues
1810 7.2 mil 1820 9.6 mil 1830 12.9 mil 1840 17 mil 1850 23.2 mil 1860 31.4 mil IN 50 YEARS THE POPULATION QUADRUPLED** US Population
Know-Nothing Party: “The Supreme Order of the Star-Spangled Banner”
Severe limits on immigration, especially from Catholic countries Restricting political office to native-born Americans Mandating a wait of 21 years before an immigrant could gain citizenship Restricting public school teachers to Protestants Mandating daily Bible readings in public schools Restricting the sale of liquor Know Nothing Platform
Causes Key Contributions Labor Issues Impact on workers Commonwealth v. Hunt Changing role of women Cult of Domesticity Industrial Revolution Pages 307-316
Causes of Rapid Industrialization • Steam Revolution of the 1830s-1850s. Machines to improve or replace muscle power. • The Railroad fueled the growing US economy: • First big business in the US. • The key to opening the West. • Aided the development of other industries.
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, 1791 Actually invented by a slave!
Transforms work of slaves from cleaning cotton to fieldhands Combination of spinning machines and cotton gin increases need for additional slaves 1800 – Slaves = 1 mil 1860 – Slaves = 4 mil Impact of the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney’s Gun Factory Interchangeable Parts Rifle
12 hour work day (Monday – Friday) ½ hour for breakfast ¾ hour for lunch 10 – 12 work day (Saturday) Wages per week Children (4-10) $1 Young women $3 Men $6 Wages for Other Jobs per week Skilled Labor $9 Male Teacher $4 Female Teacher $2 Farm Labor North - $3 Farm Labor South - $2 Mill Workers vs. Other Jobs
The Lowell/Waltham System:First Dual-Purpose Textile Plant Francis Cabot Lowell’s town - 1814
Lowell Girls What was their typical “profile?”
Lowell Boarding Houses What was boardinghouse life like?
The Factory Girl’s Garland February 20, 1845 issue.
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!
The Early Union Movement Workingman’s Party (1829)* Founded by Robert Dale Owen and others in New York City. Early unions were usually local, social, and weak. Commonwealth v. Hunt(1842). Worker political parties were ineffective until the post-Civil War period.
Although the new middle-class family had its roots in preindustrial society, it differed from the preindustrial family in three major ways: I) A nineteenth-century middle-class family did not have to make what it needed in order to survive. Men could work in jobs that produced goods or services while their wives and children stayed at home. 2) When husbands went off to work, they helped create the view that men alone should support the family. This belief held that the world of work, the public sphere, was a rough world, where a man did what he had to in order to succeed, that it was full of temptations, violence, and trouble. A woman who ventured out into such a world could easily fall prey to it, for women were weak and delicate creatures. A woman's place was therefore in the private sphere, in the home, where she took charge of all that went on. 3) The middle-class family came to look at itself, and at the nuclear family in general, as the backbone of society. Kin and community remained important, but not nearly so much as they had once been. Cult of Domesticity
As you read, Create a chart detailing improvements and impacts for: Agriculture Transportation Communication Take notes to discuss: Continental economy Rags to riches myth Transportation / CommunicationPages 316-326
Early 19c Industrialization in America: The Market Revolution
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What were the results of early 19c industrialization in America?
New Inventions: "Yankee Ingenuity"
Resourcefulness & Experimentation • Americans were willing to try anything. • They were first copiers, theninnovators. 1800 41 patents were approved. 1860 4,357 “ “ “
OliverEvans First automated flour mill First prototype of the locomotive
The Transportation Revolution
First Turnpike- 1790 Lancaster, PA By 1832, nearly 2400 mi. of road connected most major cities.
Conestoga Covered Wagons Conestoga Trail, 1820s