Chapter 14
“Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860”
Study Guide

1.      Describe the American movement westward and life on the frontier.

2.      Describe the effects of population growth and immigration on American society, including anti-immigrant nativism.

3.      Describe the early development of the factory system and Eli Whitney’s system of interchangeable parts.

4.      Indicate the nature of early industrial labor and explain its effects on workers.

5.      Describe the effects of an increasingly specialized market economy on American society, especially its impact on women workers and the family.

6.      Analyze the impact of new technology and transportation systems on American business and agriculture, particularly in the expanding market economy and creating a sectional division of labor.

7.      Describe the sequence of major transportation systems that developed from 1790 to 1860 and indicate their economic consequences. 

Identification: Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, Elias Howe, Samuel F. B. Morse, Know-Nothings, George Caitlin, Cyrus McCormick, Robert Fulton, Cyrus Field, Lancaster Turnpike, DeWitt Clinton 

Identify:

Forty-Eighters
industrial revolution
cotton gin
limited liability
National Road (Cumberland Road)
Erie Canal
clipper ships