APUSH Period 4: Chapter 9

1790-1860, manufacturing throughout the nation skyrockets, luxury goods become common to everyone

1820-1830s, turned workers into employees and made bosses more powerful. Bosses no longer work and benefit off of struggles of working class

Cheaper source of Labor, recruited thousands of young girls to work

Ideology of production based on liberty and equality; small scale works

Groups of workers typically performing, carpentry, stonecutting, masonry, cabinetmaking. Often protested/petitioned against low wages and long hours

The price of goods should reflect the amount of Labor required to make them

Caused by new canal and road system, massive migration of people to Greater MIssissippi River Basin

364 mile waterway that connected Lake Erie and Hudson River

A central theme of American popular culture which motivated men to seek success

Organizations of conservative social reform, aimed to restore "the moral government of God"

Values of Benevelont Empire, opposed by workers and freethinkers

Evangelical Protestants 1832, curb consumption of alcohol, Revivalist methods

Condemned Immigration, asserted authority of Protestant religious/cultural values

Came to America in 1789, brought the best British technology for spinning cotton

Wealthy Boston merchant, toured textile Mills, drew design, worked with Paul Moody to create better design with young female workers

Produced most important inventors, posterity was extremely successful

Inventor of the Cotton Gin in 1793, 1798 developed machine tools that could rapidly produce musket parts

Moved reaper factory from West Virginia to Chicago, helped Midwest industry grow and revolutionized agriculture

Helped found General Union for Promoting the Observance of the Christian Sabbath in 1828