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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
• 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
• 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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Population Distribution,1790 and 1850
• Industrial Beginnings
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American Cities,1820 and 1860
• Textile Towns in New England Source: Statistical Abstract of the United States
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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/NationalGeographic Society Image Collection