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J O U R N A L
List the pros and cons
of living in a large city.
What do you think it
would be like to live in
a large northern
industrial city in the
1800’s. Explain
THE MARKET REVOLUTION (1815-1814)
Chapter 8
Country changes
early 1800’s
Population grows
Demand for more as
well as diverse goods
Cash and credit!
MARKET REVOLUTIONSECTION 1
SAMUEL SLATER
Arrived in disguise in
America late 1700’s
Build first textile mill
Providence, RI in 1790
Became wealthy
building mills northeast
A NEW TYPE OF WORKER
The entrepreneur• Good economy early 1800’s-more
business owners
Capitalism• Risk taking and free enterprise
encouraged
Capital• Supply of money and goods
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY
Households self-sufficient 1600 and 1700’s
Produced all goods needed in house
Sold or traded surplus
Work only for household
Households begin to produce less at home; buy
more
Workshops and factories become common
1780’s -1790’s growth
Credit and cash for
investing
Started by private
investors
Help develop American
economy
BANKS & BUYING
Americans buy
more goods
Middle class
become more
“affluent”
Capitalism not
embraced by all
THE NORTHERN SECTION
Section 2
Northeast• New England,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Old Northwest• Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota
THE DIVIDED NORTH
NORTHWEST
Farms
Small towns
Crops • Exported/
marketed majority of products for consumption
NORTHEAST
Farms
Factories
Textile mills• Waltham and
Lowell, MA• Young, unmarried
females employed
Lowell Textile Mills
CONTINUED…….
Young people move to cities
Populations explode
Men and women work outside of
home
Poverty on the rise
Cities unable to support
population growth
Take risks
Provided factories
Paid workers
Downside-wages low
and conditions
sometimes bad;
employees could be
replaced
Not so satisfied
outside the home
Looked for solutions
to poor working
conditions and low
wages
Strikes become
common
OWNERS VS. WORKERS
Capitalists Workers
THE SOUTHERN SECTION
Section 3
COTTON IS KING!
Tobacco and cotton
major crops in South
Labor intensive
Easier to transport
(export)
(1860 cotton 2/3rds of
the total value of
American exports)
SOUTHERN ECONOMY
Crops that were transported elsewhere
No major factories or industries
Farms and large plantations where cotton
was grown
Large cities, but less than the North
Large population of African Americans
Cotton, tobacco, sugar
labor intensive
Enslaved African
Americans provided
cheap labor
Very few whites in the
south owned slaves
Crash Course - Slavery
SLAVERY
RESISTANCE
Denmark Vesey
Gullah Jack
Gabriel Prosser
Nat Turner