American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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Objectives

1. The changes that were taking place within the nation in terms of population growth, population movement, urbanization, and the impact of immigration.

2. The importance of the Erie Canal for the development of the West and of New York City.

3. The changes that were taking place in transportation, business, industry, labor, and commerce as the full impact of the industrial revolution was felt in the United States.

4. The reasons why the Northeast and Northwest tended to become more dependent on each other, while the South became isolated from the rest of the nation in the 1840s and 1850s.

5. The vast changes taking place in the Northeast as agriculture declined while urbanization and industrialization progressed at a rapid rate.

6. The characteristics of the greatly increased immigration of the 1840s and 1850s, and the immigrants' effects on the development of the free states.

7. The reasons for the appearance of the nativist movement in the 1850s.

8. The living and working conditions of both men and women in the northern factory towns and on the northwestern farms.

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