The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

230 Chapter 8 Toward a National Economy census, the first to make the distinction, estimated that of the nation’s population of ...

Rise of Corporations 231 The Persistence of the Household System Since technology affected American industry unevenly, contempor ...

232 Chapter 8 Toward a National Economy cities grew in size and number, the need to feed the populace caused commercial agricult ...

Revival of Slavery 233 when it was no longer possible to claim the British bounty. Cotton seemed an obvious answer. Farmers were ...

234 Chapter 8 Toward a National Economy In the 1780s many opponents of slavery began to think of solving the “Negro problem” by ...

Transportation and the Government 235 generations. Many plodded on foot over hundreds of miles, dragging crude carts laden with ...

236 Chapter 8 Toward a National Economy collected at gates along the way; hinged poles sus- pended across the road were turned b ...

237 from self-sufficient family farms and local small-scale produc- tion of goods to an interdependent system of trade, factory ...

238 Chapter 8 Toward a National Economy 1820 at least sixty vessels were operating between New Orleans and Louisville, and by th ...

New York City: Emporium of the Western World 239 The legislators were convinced, and in 1817 the state began construction along ...

240 Chapter 8 Toward a National Economy weeks while a skipper waited for additional cargo. Now merchants on both sides of the At ...

The Marshall Court 241 nationwide canal-building boom. Most canals were constructed either by the states, as in the case of the ...

242 Chapter 8 Toward a National Economy was the agent of order and progress” and tended to interpret the Constitution in a way t ...

The Marshall Court 243 control of interstate electric power lines and even radio and television transmission. Many of Marshall’s ...

244 Chapter 8 Toward a National Economy 1790 Samuel Slater sets up first American factory 1793 Eli Whitney is widely—but wrongly ...

Chapter Review 245 Research and Explore Coming of Age in 1833 (a great period of change/reinvention in the world), p. 225 Watcht ...

Do you vote? 246 The 2008 Obama campaign brought the Internet revo- lution to American politics. By election night Obama had 7 m ...

Jacksonian DemocracyJacksonian Democracy 9 CONTENTS ■Robert Cruikshank’s, President’s Levee, or All Creation Going to the White ...

248 Chapter 9 Jacksonian Democracy “Democratizing” Politics At 11 AM on March 4, 1829, a bright sunny day, Andrew Jackson, hatle ...

1828: The New Party System in Embryo 249 and the slow spread of secondary education all bespeak a concern for improving the know ...