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Early Industry, Irish Immigration and Reforms:
Transportation in the early 1800s.
 Railroads: Map 11.1 (p 359); Map 12.1 (p 400)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-04-03-francetrain_N.htm “The Rocket” and speed records
 Eire Canal: describe (p 361)
 Early Steamboats: What were their advantages over
other modes of transportation? Detriments? Why
were they dangerous? (362-3)
 The Telegraph: questions (p 402-3). How did the
Telegraph work? Where did the telegraph lines run?
Can you think of any parallels to inventions today or
in recent times?
 Cook Stoves (p 338): What were the benefits to the
developments of stoves? Why did they develop
WHEN they did? What resistance was there
against them? Can you think of any parallels to
inventions today or in recent times?
 Lowell Mills: (p 361-4). One author has written:
“The Lowell mills both exploited and liberated
women in ways unknown to the pre-industrial
political economy.” In what ways was working at
the mills liberating and in what ways was it
exploitative?
Early Industrial Revolution in the US:
 What is the Industrial Revolution? What revolutions
in industry happened? When, Where?
 Key industries/products:
Steam engine
Clothing
Iron
Coal
Social and Economic Impacts:
 Relocation: Workers concentrated in cities; work in
factories (Lowell Mills: early)
 Work changes: schedule
 Child labor as an issue (moreso later in US)
 Slavery grows in the South
“The Lowell mills both exploited and liberated women
in ways unknown to the pre-industrial political
economy.” Explain.
What is the “free labor ideal” ?
Demographics and Immigration:
Numbers:
Where:
Who:
Main Occupation:
Immigration:
Irish immigration articles?
Between 1840-60: ¾ of immigrants came from
Germany or Ireland.
Occupations? Religion? Other demographics?
 Discussion questions Irish Immigration.
Religion and Reform:
 Second Great Awakening
 Temperance
 “moral reform”
 Abolition
o American Colonization Society
o “Transatlantic Abolition” article
 Romanticism: define
 Transcendentalism
 Utopian communities: Why?
o Fouriers
o Oneidans