Blog for Period 6 10/25

Remember there is a timed write on Moday and a quiz on Wednesday.

Notes:

Market Revolution
-People buying more land out west.
-Those who don't mainly travel into cities.

Living Conditions
-Becomes more expensice to move west.
-Shrinking farms in east brew a growing lower class of loborers/tenent farmers.
-Marriage age goes up and birthrate down.
-Increase in children out of wedlock.
-Poor become more numerous.
-Fathers' authority decreases.

1820 and Beyond
-Before 1820, most farmers take on part time craftsmanship for neighbors.
-Post 1920 they find markets for products further away.
-Encourages craftsmen to concentrate in new areas.
-Ex: Shoemakers in Bedford, Mass.
-Shoes, cloth, fans etc. are sold when "Yankee Peddlers" load up wagons to sell to farm towns.
-Livestock farming soon becomes the majority.
-Couldn't produce enough argiculture to keep up with New York or West.
-New England turns to beef as cash crop.
-Sold in local country stores.
-Shift to cash economy.

Coastal City Change Pre Revolution
-England has no need for argiculture products.
-Had to trade other items elsewhere.
-Triangular trades develop.
-Brings wealth to city merchants.
-Capitalism rises with people willing to spend on trading ventures.
-Lend out loans, real estate, etc.
-Insurance companies for chipping agencies are set up.
-Post Revolution- Good merchant prospects with France and England at war.
-New banks, insurance, specialized marketing systems are up.

Effects of War of 1812.
-1807- Disruption Emabargo.
-After war, merchant prosperity up, city lifestyle down.
-Threatened with sickness and unemployment.
-Craftsmen divded into categories, each making products by hand.
-Learned skills by apprenticing with master craftsmen.
-Journymen worked for wages under master craftsmen.

Craftsmen begin Competing.
-Many are of the same trade.
-At first, investors are at advantage by avoiding one large shop cost.
-By 1820s, master craftsmen begin taking advantage of cutting production costs.
-Bring in unskilled labor to workshops.
-Many lose hope to become master craftsmen.
-Need for investment money increases.
-Smaller number of successes, but make more money.
-Apprenticeships become excuse for cheap labor.
-Masters also threatened by scale.

1814- America's First Cotton Factory
-Manufactor all steps under one roof.
-Dramatically lowers crop costs.
-Spiining wheels, hand looms start dissapearing.
-Country stores carry local farm products.
-Sugar, salt, coffeee all there.
-Silverware, dishes, wallpaper also options.

1820+ Transportation Revolution.
Compliments Market Revolution.
-1825- Erie Canal Completed.
-More canals inspired from it.
-Toll roads, steamboats, railroads- large impact in 1840s.
-Possible to extend market further.