Ch. 11 Notes
Technology, Culture & Everyday Life: 1840 - 1860
Typical American of the 1850’s:
Inventions that helped change America:
1807 – Steamboats – Robert Fulton
1830 – Locomotives – George Stevenson
1831 – Colt Revolver – Samuel Colt
1834 – Mechanical Reaper – Cyrus McCormick
1837 – Vulcanizing Rubber – Charles Goodyear
1837 – Steel Plow – John Deere
1844 – Telegraph – Samuel Morse
1846 – Sewing Machine – Elias Howe
1856 – Bessemer Process – Henry Bessemer
1858 – Transatlantic Cable – Cyrus Field
Building the Business World:
Principle of Limited Liability
General Incorporation Law
Railroads
Why Anti-RR?
Transatlantic Cable
Clipper Ships
International Trade
China
Japan
Pony Express
Scientific Achievement
Wealth & Poverty
Health
Theater
Newspapers
Magazines
Artists
Music
Literature:
Golden Age:
Emerson
Thoreau
Whitman
Poe
Hawthorne
Melville