Chapter 9

The Transformation of American Society, 1815-

1840

New States

Ways of Moving

Life Styles

Mountain Men

Westward Expansion

The Northwest Ordinance

The Louisiana Purchase

The Transcontinental Treaty of 1819

Land warrants for veterans

The National Road

Government Influence on Expansion

Government Pressure

Andrew Jackson

The Indian Removal Act

Worcester V Georgia

John Marshall

The Trail of Tears

The Removal of the Indians

Cotton

Commercial Farming

Debt

Public Domain

Speculators

Increasing Agricultural Production

Squatters

John Deere

Cyrus McCormick

The Panic of 1819

The National Bank

Western Settlement

Robert Fulton’s Steamboat

Canal Systems

The Erie Canal

River Port Cities

Lake Port Cities

Transportation

Samuel Slater

Cotton Mills

Factors of Industrialization

Interchangeable Parts

Industrialization

Water Power

The role of women

The change in the need for labor

Trade unions

“workingmen’s” political parties

Manufacturing

The gap between the rich and the poor

Free blacks in the north

African American churches

The middle to lower class

Effects of Industrialization