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CHAPTER 9
THE TRANSFORMATION
OF AMERICAN SOCIETY,
1815–1840
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Westward Expansion
– The Sweep West
• Western Society and Customs
– The Far West
– The Federal Government and the West
– The Removal of the Indians
– The Agricultural Boom
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The Removal of the Native Americans
to the West, 1820 1840
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The Growth of the Market Economy
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Federal Land Policy
The Speculator and the Squatter
The Panic of 1819
The Transportation Revolution: Steamboats,
Canals, and Railroads
• The Growth of Cities
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Industrial Beginnings
• Causes of Industrialization
• Textile Towns in New England
• Artisans and Workers in Mid-Atlantic Cities
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Equality and Inequality
• Urban Inequality: The Rich and the Poor Free
• Blacks in the North
• The “Middling Classes”
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The Revolution in Social Relationships
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The Attack on the Professions
The Challenge to Family Authority
Wives and Husband
Horizontal Allegiances and the Rise of Voluntary
Associations
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Major Rivers,
Roads, and Canals, 1825–1860
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Population Distribution,
1790 and 1850
• Industrial Beginnings
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American Cities,
1820 and 1860
Source: Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Textile Towns in New England
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U.S. Manufacturing Employment, 1820
and 1850
Source: Historical Atlas of the United States, 2nd ed.
(Washington,D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1993), p. 148.
Reprinted by permission of National Geographic Maps/National
Geographic Society Image Collection
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