Week 7 Study Guide

 

Terms and People

Cult of domesticity

George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All!

Barter economy

Abolition

Aaron Burr

Alexander Hamilton

Samuel Slater

Francis Cabot Lowell

Yeoman farmer

Jeffersonians

Paternalism

Market revolution

Denmark Vesey

Dueling/code duello

Godey’s Ladies Book

 

 

Maps

Mississippi River

Ohio River

Snake River

Louisiana Purchase

Northwest Territory

New Orleans

Lowell, Massachusetts

 

Primary Source Readings:

Martha Ballard’s diary online

Based on viewing the diary, what obstacles to writing a history would you face using this source?

 

Primary docs on Lowell Mill girls

What was working like for women of the “middling sort” in the North?   How would you characterize the experience of the Lowell Mill girls?

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