In case you missed it

After looking through Mr. Gottschalk’s yearbooks, we took some notes:

-The hardships caused by the trade embargos of the War of 1822 convinced the Americans that they can't be too dependant on Europe
-Market economies first hit agriculture
-People began specializing in one thing, selling it, and buying everything else
-The Erie Canal enables transportation of goods
-Families begin to shrink because parents don't need as much help
-Male and female roles become more distinguished (men do everything that relates to money and women do everything else)
-New improvements: Desserts, separate rooms, oil lamps, textiles
-Samuel Slater starts the first factory: a yarn spinning mill
-The Walden System: Other factories use that yarn to create fabric
-Young, unmarried women work in factories and live in boarding houses with chaperones who make sure they read and go to church

A Slight Recap of Trade
-Transatlantic trade (rum, fish, etc) during the colonial era
-transport wasn't good enough to move crops
-2 cultures arise: market cultures on the coast, and non-market cultures in the west
-The non-market culture had no monetary reward for their work and no incentive for creating a surplus so they did a form of subsistence farming
-Families had lots of kids and fathers had tight control
-Began to trade current land for more land farther west
-Eventually, with technological improvements, the cultures collided.