Western Migration
1.
Why was frontier
life harder for women?
- Environmental consequences of expansion?
(Ecological Imperialism)
The Impact of Immigration
3. Negative effects of urban expansion? 290
4. Reasons for Irish Immigration? 292
5. Describe the Irish Immigrants. 292
6. What difficulties did they encounter upon arrival? 292
7. What are some of their successes? 293
8. How are the Germans and why did they immigrate? 293
9. What were some of their contributions to American
society? 293
10. Who are da Nativists? 296
11. Why and how did
they respond to inundation of immigrants? 296
12. Know Nothing Party? 296
Industrializing America
13. Why was American industry slow to develop at first?
300
14. Role of Samuel Slanter in industry? 300
15. Eli’s influence on civil war? 300
16. What did they mean by “the South was tied hand and
foot to the throne of King Cotton?” 302
17. What region became the first center of manufacturing
and how/why? 302
18. How did business practices change in this period? 303
19. Interchangeable Parts? 303
20. Impact of Sewing Machine on Industry? 304
21. What were the “talking wires” developed by Samuel
Morse? 304
Labor: Human Cost and Benefit
22. How did workers benefit and suffer in the
factory system? (consider different groups) 304-305
- Working Conditions (304)
- Child Laborers (304)
- Adult Wage Workers (304)
23. How did employers try to fight workers? 305
24. What were strikebreakers/scabs? 305
25. What was the status of labor unions in the first half
of the 19th century? 305
26. What was the significance of the Commonwealth v. Hunt case?
27. To what extent did opportunities improve for women in
this period, inside and outside the home?
Women and the Economy
28. What did factory jobs offer as a promise to women? 306
29. Describe life as a “factory girl” in the Lowell
Factory Mills? Who did they typically hire? 306
30. What were the common occupations of women at this
time? 306
31. What was the “cult of domesticity?” 307
32. What was “domestic feminism?” 307
33. Did mothers still retain the responsibility of
“republican motherhood?” How? 308
Agricultural Advances
34. What was the first widespread American food crop, and
why was it so popular? 308
35. What were the two major agricultural inventions of
this period? What were their functions?.
- Steel Plow (John Deere) 309
- Mechanical mower-reaper (Cyrus McCormick) 309
36. How did these inventions revolutionize the west? 309
Transportation Revolution: Roads
37. What were the new advances in roads? 310
38. What was the Lancaster Turnpike? 310
39. Who opposed the construction of roads? 310
40. How did the steamboat revolutionize transportation and
trade? Who invented it? 310
41. What was the long-term impact of the opening of the
Erie Canal? 312
- Change in Shipping Cost:
- Change in Transit Time:
- Economic and Political Changes:
42. What were the early benefits and problems of the
railroads? 313
- Benefits:
- Problems:
Advances in Communication
43. What were some mid-19th century advances in
communication? Analyze their impact.
- Transatlantic Cable (Cyrus Field) 314:
- Clipper Ships (Donald McKay) 314:
- Pony Express 315:
A National Economy
44. Explain how the transportation revolution helped to
establish interconnected continental economy? 316
45. Which economic activity did each region begin to
specialize in? 317
46. Why did the southern states assume a binding connection
with the West on the eve of the Civil War? 317
47. How did the market revolution change the subsistence
economy? 317
48. What was the social impact on families of the growing
market economy? 317
49. How did the economic revolution create increased
prosperity? 318
50. How did the economic revolution create increased
inequality in America? 318
Spinning Yarn, 1814 (Cottage
Industry) Spinning
Yarn, 1840s (Lowell Factory Mills)
Explain the differences in the two images above. What
accounts for their differences?
