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Chronological Reasoning and Causation

Did the market economy build the canal or did the canal build the market economy?

  1. Load Ledger chart, "Prices of Freight between Albany and New-York," Albany, April 1823 in Main Image Viewer
  2. Load Ledger entries for shipping freight between Albany and New York City, 1825 in Main Image Viewer
  3. Load Ledger entries for shipping freight between Albany and New York City, 1825 in Main Image Viewer
  4. Load Ledger entries for shipping freight between Albany and New York City, 1825 in Main Image Viewer
  5. Load Letter from J.H. Green, for Lyman Root, Albany, to Mr. Allen Brown, July 6, 1839 in Main Image Viewer
  6. Load Letter from J.H. Green, for Lyman Root, Albany, to Mr. Allen Brown, August 26, 1839 in Main Image Viewer
  7. Load Letter from Arthur H. Root, Albany, to Mr. Allen Brown, New York, October 22, 1839 in Main Image Viewer
  8. Load Letter from J.H. Green, for Lyman Root, Albany to Mr. Allen Brown, March 6, 1840 in Main Image Viewer
  9. Load Letter from J.H. Green, for Lyman Root, Albany, to Mr. Allen Brown, April 30, 1840 in Main Image Viewer
  10. Load Broadside advertising the Black River and New York Line of canal boats, 1861 in Main Image Viewer
  11. Load Canal Boats on the North River, New York from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, 1854 in Main Image Viewer
  12. Load Photograph of hay being loaded from a bridge onto a canal boat at Auriesville, c. 1905 in Main Image Viewer

Suggested Teaching Instructions

 

As the nation expanded, growing sectional tensions, especially over slavery, resulted in political and constitut ses that culminated in the Civil War.American nationalism was both strengthened and challenged by territorial expansion and economic growth 

Students will examine the market revolution, including technological developments, the development of transportation networks, the growth of domestic industries, the increased demands for free and enslaved labor, the changing role of women, and the rise of political democracy.