• Describe the traditional system of subsistence agriculture and the developments in transportation and technology that transformed American farming in the early nineteenth century.

• Discuss the development of a plantation economy based on slavery in the South.

• Characterize the aspects of everyday life among southern slaves that enabled them to survive and resist their enslavement.

• Outline the development of the factory system in New England.

• Describe the varied reactions of workers to the new factory system, including the development of working-class communities and a new industrial work ethic.

1808 Congress outlaws the importation of slaves.

1816 Eli Terry introduces his shelf clock.

1831 Nat Turner’s Rebellion in southern Virginia.

1837 Procter and Gamble founded in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1852 Congress passes steamboat safety law.