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The Growth of a Nation
Everyday life

America in 1800 by Henry Adam
The eating habits, fighting and industriousness of Americans at the openning of the new century.

From
: History of the United States of American during the First Administration
of Thomas Jefferson.

Industrial Revolution

Beginnings of Industrialism by Joseph and Frances Gies
Eli Whitney, the cotton gin, and interchangeable parts in manufacturing, as a case study of America's technology.

From: The Ingenious Yankees. Crowell, NY, NY. (1976)

 

Industry

 

The New Industrial Order by Jonathan Prude

Lowell Mill Girls
The Lords and the Mill Girls Maury Klein
American History Illustrated, October/November 1981
The first planned industrial communmity in America, Lowell, Mass. became a model of the "paternalistic factory system," employing. . .

From: Stephen B. Oates, Portrait of AMERICA , Seventh Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1999.
President Jackson

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency
New PBS web site on the life of Andrew Jackson, 2007.

The Jacksonian Revolution
From The World and I, Washington Times Corporaton, 1988.

Indians
Trail of Tears
Lucy Stone

New England Reformers by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Lecture read before the Society in Amory Hall, on Sunday, 3 March, 1844

from ESSAYS: Second Series (1844)

Breaking New Ground,1800-18 4 8 by Michael Goldberg
from NO SMALL COURAGE, A History of Women in the United States, edited by Nancy F. Cott. Oxford University Press,

 
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