The Dynamics of Growth
Assignments
Henretta: Chapter 10 HOMEWORK:
Primary Sources
1793 - Eli Whitney's Petition for Patent for the Cotton Gin
1812 - Drawing - Whitney's Cotton Gin
1826 - Langdon Bylesby: The Sources and Effects of Unequal Wealth
1826 - "The Natural Tie between Master and Apprentice has been torn Asunder."
1829 - View of Erie Canal
1829 - The Working Man's Declaration of Independence
1829 - George Washington Dixon as "Zip Coon."
1829 - Thomas "Daddy" Rice as "Jump Jim Crow"
---- - Charlie Wilson as Minstrel Banjo Player
---- - Audience Pelts Minstrel Players with Shoes
---- - Poster for Callender's Colored Minstrels
1832 - Circular - Edwin P. Christy and his Minstrels.
1832 - Seth Luther: An Address to the Workingmen of New England
1835 - Letter to Parents: "Factories are talked about as schools of vice."
1836 - Poem, Song of Lowell Working Girls.
1836 - An Account of a Visitor to Lowell.
1837 - Charles River Bridge vs. Warren Bridge
1845 - 48 - Letters of Mary Paul
1850 - An Emigrant's Message
1853 - Lowell Mills: Timetable.
Web Links
Chart - Railroad Growth: 1840 - 1860
The Eli Whitney Museum
Slater Mill Historical Site
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