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The Northern World View

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The Market Revolution 

 

i - T- R - I - P Market Revoltuion(1815–1860)

inventions (1800, 306 patents; 1860, 28,000 patents) - Samuel F. B. Morse (telegraph, 1849) Elias Howe (sewing machine, 1846; perfected by Singer); John Deere (steel plow, 1837);Cyrus McCormick (mechanical mower-reaper, 1830s)

 

Transportation Revolution: spreading networks of turnpikes, roads, canals, and railroads  National or Cumberland Road (1811, completed in 1852) ;  Erie Canal (1825, 364 miles—Albany to Buffalo); The steamboat; Robert Fulton   Map of Highways and Waterways in the United States 1826-1830 ;  Letter to President Jackson (1829)

 

Immigration: 1840 to 1860, 4.2 million immigrants (mostly Irish 1845-46 [potato blight], 1.5 million); four out of five settled in the Northeast

 

Population Explosion: 5.3 million in 1800 increases to more than 23 million in 1850; urban population quadruples from 1800 to 1840.  By 1852-53, Boston and New York had 50% foreign-born populations. One of every two people in New York City in 1852 was born outside the United States. The Northern cities, seats of market culture, commercialism, manufacturing, were immigrant cities.

 

 

http://sierrasolutions.com/ - the modern yankee peddler ?

 

 

 

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Case Study #1 The Erie Canal (1825) 

Geographic factors often influence government actions, both foreign and domestic. Some of these factors include location, physical environment, and movement of people, climate, and resources. In regards to the building of the Erie canal the following:

 

Historical circumstances that resulted in the government action

 

Discuss the influence of a geographic factor on the action

 

Describe the impact of the government action on the United States

 

 

 

 

 

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