HIST 105 1nd Edition Lecture 22 Outline of previous lecture I Video We shall remain Outline of Current lecture I US economics a Picture b Advantages II Florida III Native Americans IV Transportation a Canals b Railroads V Farming Current Lecture Visiting the US Marquis de Lafayette 1824 Says people are patriotic Growth o Population people are healthier o Size o Wealth US economic picture 1820 1860 These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o 1860 civil war Boom and bust cycles US economic advantage Domestic and foreign capital Government support o Link between government and business Industrialization Entrepreneurial spirit Natural resources o Land water Population growth o People were healthy Transportation o Moving people and goods Canals Railroads Florida Had gone back to Spain European powers are losing grip on colonies Andrew Jackson Retaliation for Seminole attacks Jackson seized east Florida o Spain empire unable to manage support and defend 1819 Adams Onis Treaty Fur trade John Jacob Astor Trades with Indians Trading with Mountain men Native Americans Five civilized tribes o Cherokee o Chickasaw o Choctaw o Creek Does not accommodate o Seminole Does not accommodate Accommodation o Agriculture Black slaves Pressure in Old Northwest Jeffersonian concept o Remain as farmers o Others trans Mississippi Growing attitude savages Farm lands Speculators o Guys who buy the land and sell it for a profit Squatters Surplus production o Produced more grain than people who can just eat Communities on rivers Self sufficiency o No slaves Ever farther westward o Opportunities Transportation 1815 president James madison Federal program Internal Improvements o roads o canals o railroads National road to move goods Toll road Cumberland MD first started West Virginia came after Wheeling VA by 1818 Vandalia IL by 1838 Robert Fulton 1765 1815 Inventor o Steam boat Fulton s Folly North river Erie canal Albany to Buffalo Other canals Philadelphia to Pittsburgh Ohio river to Cleveland Chicago to Illinois river Farming Fertile land Steel plow Better strains of crops Transportation o Opportunity to expand agriculture opportunity Wheat o NY and PA o Ohm IN IL Tobacco upper south Rice SC Sugar LA King cotton lower south
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