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| CHAPTER 12 | THE DYNAMICS OF GROWTH | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1793 |
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin |
| 1795 |
Wilderness Road opened |
| 1807 |
Fulton’s steamboat sails up Hudson River |
| 1813 |
First factory founded at Waltham, Mass. |
| 1825 |
Opening of the Erie Canal |
| 1837 |
John Deere invents steel plow |
| 1841 |
Cyrus McCormick patented the mechanical reaper |
| 1842 |
Commonwealth v. Hunt |
| 1844 |
Charles Goodyear patented the vulcanizing process |
| 1854 |
Know-Nothing Party established |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Explain changes in agriculture from 1800 to 1860 and describe their social
and economic impact.
- List and describe improvements in transportation and communication from
1800 to 1860.
- Analyze the significant advances in technology from 1800 to 1860 and their
impact on society.
- Account for the emergence of the factory as a method of production and
assess its social impact.
- Explain how the growth of manufacturing affected urbanization and vice
versa.
- Appreciate the changes in popular culture during this period.
- Describe the nature of immigration prior to 1860 and the reaction of
previously settled Americans to this new immigration.
- Analyze the early development of labor unions and account for their failure
to gain widespread acceptance.
- Describe and explain the distribution of wealth in the United States in “the
era of the common man.”
- Explain the rise of the major professions in the decades before the Civil
War.
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